Plane used by Tom Cruise film crew crashes killing two

Two crew members from Tom Cruise's new movie Mena were killed in a plane crash in Colombia on Friday.

A Los Angeles-based film pilot died and a third person was seriously injured.

An aviation agency official confirmed Tom Cruise was not on the aircraft.

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The official said an America, Alan Purwin, was killed along with Colombian Carlos Berl.

According to the Daily Mail, American pilot Jimmy Lee Garland was rushed to a hospital in Medellin and is in intensive care.

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The twin-engine engine plane, a Piper Aerostar-600, which was assigned to the film crew, ran into bad weather after taking off from the town of Santa Fe de Antioquia.

Alan Purwin was founder and president of Los Angeles-based Helinet Technologies, a company which provides aerial surveillance technology to law enforcement, the New York Post reports.

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