Two dead as Tom Cruise cine aggregation even crashes in Colombia, Two humans died if a even accustomed aggregation associates from a blur starring Tom Cruise comatose in Colombia, aerodynamics authorities and Universal Pictures said.
The aggregation had just captivated up assembly on the accessible Doug Liman blur "Mena" if it went down Friday while abiding to Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport in Medellin.
"On account of the production, our hearts and prayers go out to the aggregation associates and their families at this difficult time," Universal Pictures said in a statement.
The even went down abreast the boondocks of San Pedro de los Milagros in a aerial breadth of Colombia's administration of Antioquia.
The twin-engine aircraft comatose Friday about 5:30 message (2230 GMT), said Uriel Bedoya of the civic civilian aerodynamics ascendancy Aerocivil.
Cruise accustomed in Colombia on August 20 to almanac scenes for the blur based on the activity of American pilot Barry Seal, who formed for Pablo Escobar, the biologic arbiter who was dead in Medellin in 1993.
The two asleep passengers, both Americans, were articular as Alan Purwin and Carlos Berl.
The plane's pilot, Jimmy Lee Garland, was afflicted in the blast and is getting advised at a Medellin hospital, breadth aerodynamics admiral said his action was stable.
Garland suffered a hip breach and added injuries, and underwent anaplasty Saturday.
Gilberto Mazo, a bounded civilian aegis official, told AFP that Garland was acquainted if rescuers accomplished him.
"There was annihilation we could do for (the added two," said Jose Ramirez, an breadth citizen who rushed to the blast site. But Garland, who was trapped central the comatose plane, "was adage 'get me out of here.'"
"We took him out on a absolute until the ambulance came for him," Ramirez said.
- Praise for Purwin -
Purwin was a architect of Helinet, the aggregation which endemic the even complex in the crash. It provides aerodynamics casework for the cine industry, as able-bodied as account and medical companies.
Steve Gatena, arch controlling of the California-based firm, paid accolade to Purwin as "a abundant man, a world-renowned aviator, and a ablaze entrepreneur."
He said Purwin aswell enjoyed the acumen of accepting been the alone Hollywood cine pilot to accept aureate throughout China.
"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," Gatena said.
Officials said that, at the time of the crash, aerial altitude were about acceptable and there was still daylight.
Authorities are investigating, however, whether abrupt wind gusts played a role in the accident.
The blast was the latest in a alternation of baleful incidents involving blur crews.
In March, eight French nationals and two Argentine pilots died in a helicopter blast while filming a television absoluteness show.
Three humans were dead during the 2013 blast of a helicopter while filming a absoluteness TV alternation for the Discovery Channel.
The aggregation had just captivated up assembly on the accessible Doug Liman blur "Mena" if it went down Friday while abiding to Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport in Medellin.
The even went down abreast the boondocks of San Pedro de los Milagros in a aerial breadth of Colombia's administration of Antioquia.
The twin-engine aircraft comatose Friday about 5:30 message (2230 GMT), said Uriel Bedoya of the civic civilian aerodynamics ascendancy Aerocivil.
Cruise accustomed in Colombia on August 20 to almanac scenes for the blur based on the activity of American pilot Barry Seal, who formed for Pablo Escobar, the biologic arbiter who was dead in Medellin in 1993.
The two asleep passengers, both Americans, were articular as Alan Purwin and Carlos Berl.
The plane's pilot, Jimmy Lee Garland, was afflicted in the blast and is getting advised at a Medellin hospital, breadth aerodynamics admiral said his action was stable.
Garland suffered a hip breach and added injuries, and underwent anaplasty Saturday.
Gilberto Mazo, a bounded civilian aegis official, told AFP that Garland was acquainted if rescuers accomplished him.
"There was annihilation we could do for (the added two," said Jose Ramirez, an breadth citizen who rushed to the blast site. But Garland, who was trapped central the comatose plane, "was adage 'get me out of here.'"
"We took him out on a absolute until the ambulance came for him," Ramirez said.
- Praise for Purwin -
Purwin was a architect of Helinet, the aggregation which endemic the even complex in the crash. It provides aerodynamics casework for the cine industry, as able-bodied as account and medical companies.
Steve Gatena, arch controlling of the California-based firm, paid accolade to Purwin as "a abundant man, a world-renowned aviator, and a ablaze entrepreneur."
He said Purwin aswell enjoyed the acumen of accepting been the alone Hollywood cine pilot to accept aureate throughout China.
"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," Gatena said.
Officials said that, at the time of the crash, aerial altitude were about acceptable and there was still daylight.
Authorities are investigating, however, whether abrupt wind gusts played a role in the accident.
The blast was the latest in a alternation of baleful incidents involving blur crews.
In March, eight French nationals and two Argentine pilots died in a helicopter blast while filming a television absoluteness show.
Three humans were dead during the 2013 blast of a helicopter while filming a absoluteness TV alternation for the Discovery Channel.
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