Tarzan Actor Joe Lara Among 7 Killed In US Plane Crash
All seven passengers aboard a plane, including Tarzan actor Joe Lara and his diet guru wife, are presumed dead after it crashed in a lake near the US city of Nashville, authorities said. . The business jet crashed around 11 pm local time Saturday in Nashville, US. The plane, which was boarded by a team of Lara and his wife, crashed within minutes of takeoff. Rutherford County Fire and Rescue (RCFR) said on social media that the accident occurred on its way from Tennessee Airport to Palm Beach, Florida.
By Saturday night, 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 said.
On Sunday afternoon, RCFR said on Facebook that recovery operations had found “several components of the aircraft as well as human remains” in a debris field about half a mile wide.
Operations would continue until dark and resume Monday morning, RCFR wrote.
Lara played Tarzan in the 1989 television movie “Tarzan in Manhattan.” He later starred in the television series “Tarzan: The Epic Adventures,” which ran from 1996-1997.
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