Tom Cruise Movie Plane Crashes Killing 2

A small plane assigned to the crew of a movie starring Tom Cruise has crashed in Colombia, killing two. A third person aboard was injured.

Cruise was not on the aircraft at the time of the crash, an official with the Colombian aviation agency confirmed.

The spokesperson said two American pilots and a Colombian were on the plane, but authorities were still trying to identify which of the two people died. The official said the twin-engine Aerostar ran into bad weather late Friday afternoon after taking off from a small colonial town near Medellin. h/t thr

Cruise, a trained pilot, arrived last month in Colombia to film a movie called Mena, about a pilot who worked for the late cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar.