Washington, United States:
All seven passengers aboard a plane, such as Tarzan actor Joe Lara and his diet program guru wife, are presumed dead following it crashed in a lake close to the US city of Nashville, authorities stated.
The tiny enterprise jet crashed at about 11:00 am regional time on Saturday, shortly following taking off from the Smyrna, Tennessee airport for Palm Beach, Florida, Rutherford County Fire & Rescue (RCFR) stated on Facebook.
The plane went down into Percy Priest Lake, about 12 miles (19 kilometers) south of Nashville.
The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed seven people today had been aboard the plane, CNN reported.
By Saturday evening, operations had switched from search and rescue to recovery efforts, RCFR incident commander Captain Joshua Sanders told a press conference.
“We are no longer in an attempt to (look) for live victims at this point so we’re now recovering as much as we can from the crash site,” he stated.
On Sunday afternoon, RCFR stated on Facebook that recovery operations had discovered “several components of the aircraft as well as human remains” in a debris field about half a mile wide.
Operations would continue till dark and resume Monday morning, RCFR wrote.
Lara played Tarzan in the 1989 tv film “Tarzan in Manhattan.” He later starred in the tv series “Tarzan: The Epic Adventures,” which ran from 1996-1997.
His wife Gwen Shamblin Lara, whom he married in 2018, was the leader of a Christian weight-loss group known as Weigh Down Ministries. She founded the group in 1986, and then in 1999 founded the Remnant Fellowship Church in Brentwood, Tennessee.
She is survived by two children from a prior marriage, according to a statement posted on the church’s internet site.
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