A pilot working on a Tom Cruise film has died in a plane crash in the Colombian Andes.

Alan Purwin, an American, was killed along with Colombian Carlos Berl on Friday after the twin-engine plane they were on ran into bad weather during a flight between the town of Santa Fe de Antioquia and Medellin.

A third man on board, Jimmy Lee Garland, another American pilot, is in hospital where he is in intensive care.

The Piper Aerostar-600 is reported to be the same aircraft that Cruise, also a trained pilot, was seen leaving on his arrival in Medellin on 20 August to begin work on his new film.
A small plane assigned to the crew of a movie starring Tom Cruise crashed in the Colombian Andes on Friday, killing two people including a Los Angeles-based film pilot and seriously injuring a third, the country’s civilian aviation authority said.

An official with the aviation agency said Cruise was not on the aircraft.

The official said an American, Alan Purwin, was killed along with a Colombian, Carlos Berl. A third person on board, Jimmy Lee Garland, a pilot from Georgia, was rushed to a hospital in Medellin where he was in intensive care.