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<h2>Plane Used on a Tom Cruise's Upcoming Film 'Mena' Crashed</h2>
A small plane carrying crew members from a movie starring Tom Cruise crashed in Colombia Friday killing two people, according to the country's aviation authority and Universal Pictures. The crew members had just wrapped up work on the new film "Mena," Universal Pictures said in a statement. "On behalf of the production, our hearts and prayers go out to the crew members and their families at this difficult time," the statement said. Colombia's Civil Aviation Authority confirmed the crash and two deaths. Another person was injured, the authority said.
Speaking to the Associated Press, an unnamed local aviation official said that the two people killed have been identified as American film pilot Alan Purwin and Colombian Carlos Berl. A third man, Jimmy Lee Garland who is also an American pilot, has been rushed to a hospital in Medellin. Purwin has endowed Hollywood movies and TV series with sweeping a real footage as a pilot carrying camera teams since working on the production of "Airwolf" in 1984, according to his profile on the Internet Movie Database.
‘An aircraft carrying crew members crashed while returning to Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport in Medellin following production wrap on the film Mena resulting in two fatalities,’ a studio spokesman said in a statement. Mena is being produced by Universal Picture and is directed by Doug Liman. Tom Cruise also plays the pivotal role of a pilot who work for the giant and most dangerous drug lord Pablo Escobar.