Mon 31 May 2021:
US actor Joe Lara, best known for starring in the American TV series Tarzan: The Epic Adventures, died over the weekend along with six other passengers in a plane crash in the state of Tennessee.
Their Cessna C501 plane plunged into Percy Priest Lake near the town of Smyrna shortly after taking off from Smyrna Rutherford Country Airport around 11 a.m. on Saturday near Nashville, according to local media.
The actor’s wife, Gwen Shamblin Lara, an author and diet guru, was also among the dead.
MIDDAY UPDATE: Percy Priest Lake Small Jet Crashhttps://t.co/G12NI69Trk
NTSB on scene as lead investigating agency, partnering with the Federal Aviation Administration and local officials. pic.twitter.com/96ywsCe2q4
— Rutherford County Fire Rescue (@RCFireRescue) May 30, 2021
His wife, 66, was the leader of a Christian weight-loss group called Weigh Down Ministries which she launched in 1986.
She wrote a best-selling faith-based weight-loss book, urging people to “turn away from the love of food and towards the love of God”, and founded the Remnant Fellowship Church in Brentwood in 1999, according to her website.
The National Transportation Safety Board said no passengers were presumed to have survived and that an investigation is underway to determine the cause of the accident.
Lara also appeared in such action movies as Sunset Heat, American Cyborg: Steel Warrior, Final Equinox and Doomsdayer and TV series including Baywatch and Conan.
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