Tom Cruise flew aforementioned aisle beyond Andes just afore crash, Amateur Tom Cruise flew in a helicopter beyond the Colombian Andes just 10 account afore a baby even on the aforementioned flight aisle comatose into a jungled mountain, killing three aggregation associates from his accessible movie, civilian aerodynamics authorities said.
An official with the aerodynamics agency, who batten on action of anonymity because he was not accustomed to altercate the matter, said the could cause of the blast Friday that dead two humans and actively afflicted a third is still beneath investigation.
Those dead were adept Hollywood pilot Alan Purwin and Venezuelan Carlos Berl, while addition American, Jimmy Lee Garland, survived. All three were accomplished pilots, the official said.
They comatose while abiding to the city-limits of Medellin on the twin-engine Piper-Aerostar 600 afterwards a day of filming with Cruise for the blur "Mena," which stars the amateur as American pilot Barry Seal, a biologic agent recruited in the 1980s by the CIA to try to abduction the backward cocaine arbiter Pablo Escobar.
Cruise, a pilot, accustomed in Medellin endure ages aerial the aforementioned 1960s-era plane, which was agnate to the one Seal would accept aureate for Escobar's cartel, the official said. Photos of the amateur sitting in the cockpit of the US-registered even accept broadcast for canicule in Colombia media.
On Friday, Cruise larboard in one of two helicopters alteration aggregation from the colonial boondocks of Santa Fe de Antioquia at about 5 p.m. bounded time. If they accustomed at Medellin's Olaya Herrera airport with black approaching, and the even didn't appearance up, they alerted air cartage controllers, the official said.
A even aerial amid the downed aircraft just beneath a top backbone acknowledgment to a ache signal, acceptance rescuers to access to the blast website bound and blitz Garland to a hospital in Medellin, area he was in analytical but abiding condition.
"We were actual advantageous to get there so quickly," said the official.
Although there were no letters of bad acclimate in Santa Fe de Antioquia if the even took off, the official declared the commonly 10-minute flight as a "bungee jump" or "roller coaster" acute a accomplished pilot to bound yield the even from abreast sea akin to a acme of 3,000 meters, or 9,800 feet, to bright the Andes afore bottomward acutely for the access into the abrupt basin surrounding Medellin.
The official said the three pilots had aureate the avenue at atomic a half-dozen times in contempo canicule but were aerial after the abetment of instruments and could accept been adrift by abundant clouds that consistently anatomy abreast the acme of the Andes. If filming in added locations of the country, such as the Amazon, the aggregation of "Mena" had heeded authorities advocacy they accept a Colombian pilot on board, the official said.
Colombia's asperous terrain, abundant condensate and long, abandoned distances makes it one of the a lot of alarming places in the apple for aviators. Medellin's Olaya Herrera airport has been the website of abundant accidents back the 1935 blast that dead acclaimed Argentine tango accompanist Carlos Gardel. It closes at night and allows alone calm flights.
Cruise was able to acreage there on Aug. 20 because his flight originated in Barranquilla, forth the country's Caribbean coast, and he was accompanied by a Colombian co-pilot, the official said.
Garland is a flight adviser and administrator of a bounded airport abreast Atlanta. A adumbrative at the Cherokee County Airport, who beneath to be articular out of account for her boss' privacy, told The Associated Press that the producers of "Mena" attempt several flight scenes at the ability and were so afflicted with Garland's professionalism as a aerial bifold for Cruise that they brought him to Colombia to abide filming there.
The Colombian official said Garland underwent three operations brief and a specialist from the U.S. was accession to abetment in his recovery.
Cruise's spokeswoman, Amanda Lundberg, had no animadversion on Friday's blow and the film's bounded and US-based producers did not acknowledgment to emails and buzz calls gluttonous comment.
Purwin was architect and admiral of Los Angeles-based Helinet Technologies. On the company's website, he's declared as "one of the top blur pilots of his generation" with a account of credits from television and above Hollywood movies such as "Transformers," ''Pearl Harbor" and "Pirates of the Caribbean."
"There are no words that can accurate our affliction for we accept absent one of the world's greatest helicopter pilots and one of aviation's greatest leaders," Helinet CEO Steve Gatena said in a account acquaint on the company's website.
In his endure cheep beatific Wednesday, Purwin bidding joy at aerial amid 12,000-foot peaks and acquaint a account of a even trailed by a helicopter landing at Santa Fe de Antioquia's clay runway.
An official with the aerodynamics agency, who batten on action of anonymity because he was not accustomed to altercate the matter, said the could cause of the blast Friday that dead two humans and actively afflicted a third is still beneath investigation.
They comatose while abiding to the city-limits of Medellin on the twin-engine Piper-Aerostar 600 afterwards a day of filming with Cruise for the blur "Mena," which stars the amateur as American pilot Barry Seal, a biologic agent recruited in the 1980s by the CIA to try to abduction the backward cocaine arbiter Pablo Escobar.
Cruise, a pilot, accustomed in Medellin endure ages aerial the aforementioned 1960s-era plane, which was agnate to the one Seal would accept aureate for Escobar's cartel, the official said. Photos of the amateur sitting in the cockpit of the US-registered even accept broadcast for canicule in Colombia media.
On Friday, Cruise larboard in one of two helicopters alteration aggregation from the colonial boondocks of Santa Fe de Antioquia at about 5 p.m. bounded time. If they accustomed at Medellin's Olaya Herrera airport with black approaching, and the even didn't appearance up, they alerted air cartage controllers, the official said.
A even aerial amid the downed aircraft just beneath a top backbone acknowledgment to a ache signal, acceptance rescuers to access to the blast website bound and blitz Garland to a hospital in Medellin, area he was in analytical but abiding condition.
"We were actual advantageous to get there so quickly," said the official.
Although there were no letters of bad acclimate in Santa Fe de Antioquia if the even took off, the official declared the commonly 10-minute flight as a "bungee jump" or "roller coaster" acute a accomplished pilot to bound yield the even from abreast sea akin to a acme of 3,000 meters, or 9,800 feet, to bright the Andes afore bottomward acutely for the access into the abrupt basin surrounding Medellin.
The official said the three pilots had aureate the avenue at atomic a half-dozen times in contempo canicule but were aerial after the abetment of instruments and could accept been adrift by abundant clouds that consistently anatomy abreast the acme of the Andes. If filming in added locations of the country, such as the Amazon, the aggregation of "Mena" had heeded authorities advocacy they accept a Colombian pilot on board, the official said.
Colombia's asperous terrain, abundant condensate and long, abandoned distances makes it one of the a lot of alarming places in the apple for aviators. Medellin's Olaya Herrera airport has been the website of abundant accidents back the 1935 blast that dead acclaimed Argentine tango accompanist Carlos Gardel. It closes at night and allows alone calm flights.
Cruise was able to acreage there on Aug. 20 because his flight originated in Barranquilla, forth the country's Caribbean coast, and he was accompanied by a Colombian co-pilot, the official said.
Garland is a flight adviser and administrator of a bounded airport abreast Atlanta. A adumbrative at the Cherokee County Airport, who beneath to be articular out of account for her boss' privacy, told The Associated Press that the producers of "Mena" attempt several flight scenes at the ability and were so afflicted with Garland's professionalism as a aerial bifold for Cruise that they brought him to Colombia to abide filming there.
The Colombian official said Garland underwent three operations brief and a specialist from the U.S. was accession to abetment in his recovery.
Cruise's spokeswoman, Amanda Lundberg, had no animadversion on Friday's blow and the film's bounded and US-based producers did not acknowledgment to emails and buzz calls gluttonous comment.
Purwin was architect and admiral of Los Angeles-based Helinet Technologies. On the company's website, he's declared as "one of the top blur pilots of his generation" with a account of credits from television and above Hollywood movies such as "Transformers," ''Pearl Harbor" and "Pirates of the Caribbean."
"There are no words that can accurate our affliction for we accept absent one of the world's greatest helicopter pilots and one of aviation's greatest leaders," Helinet CEO Steve Gatena said in a account acquaint on the company's website.
In his endure cheep beatific Wednesday, Purwin bidding joy at aerial amid 12,000-foot peaks and acquaint a account of a even trailed by a helicopter landing at Santa Fe de Antioquia's clay runway.
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