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Hollywood Movie Pilot Killed in Plane Crash on Set of New Tom Cruise Film in Colombia
KTLA ^ | 01:59am, September 12, 2015 | Kennedy Ryan and CNN Wire,

Posted on 09/12/2015 12:34:01 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Pilot Alan D. Purwin was one of the people killed, said Jack Snyder, an executive at Helinet Aviation, which owned the plane.

The plane, described as a twin-engine Aerostar, went down in bad weather shortly after takeoff on a flight from Santa Fe de Antioquia to Medellin, according to the Associated Press.

The crew members had just wrapped up work on the new film "Mena," Universal Pictures said in a statement.

(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: helinetaviation; hollywood; jacksnyder; planecrash
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Helinet Aviation's Alan Purwin is seen in a 1992 photograph from the Los Angeles Times. (Credit: Michael Robinson Chavez)
1 posted on 09/12/2015 12:34:01 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: EveningStar

ping


2 posted on 09/12/2015 12:36:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

RIP Mr. Purwin. May God welcome you home.

Prayers for the love of Christ and comfort of the Holy Ghost for the family and those affected.

Another example of how tomorrow is guaranteed to no one, and you just never know.


3 posted on 09/12/2015 12:38:41 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: BenLurkin
went down in bad weather shortly after takeoff

Takeoff is optional.

Landing is mandatory.

Here endeth the lesson.

4 posted on 09/12/2015 12:40:05 PM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: BenLurkin
The crew members had just wrapped up work on the new film "Mena," Universal Pictures said in a statement.

Clintoncides continue?

5 posted on 09/12/2015 12:42:58 PM PDT by x
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To: BenLurkin

It goes with the territory..probably the most famous movie pilot death was Paul Mantz in the making of the original “Flight of the Phoenix”


6 posted on 09/12/2015 12:43:05 PM PDT by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans Patriots are in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: BenLurkin

Second pilot to die in a Tom Cruise film.


7 posted on 09/12/2015 12:50:53 PM PDT by Obadiah (Mr. Obama, the time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end.)
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To: Obadiah

Goose was the first?


8 posted on 09/12/2015 12:51:59 PM PDT by dfwgator
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GTMA. I’ll bet a lot of people forgot about that.


9 posted on 09/12/2015 12:54:21 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Liberals keep looking for ways to be offended. I keep looking for ways to offend them.)
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To: BenLurkin

What a shame.


10 posted on 09/12/2015 12:54:59 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: rrrod

Medellin ping.


11 posted on 09/12/2015 12:55:54 PM PDT by Tax-chick (I want to live my cat's life.)
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To: BenLurkin
The crew members had just wrapped up work on the new film "Mena," Universal Pictures said in a statement.

Wonder who they got to play Bush and Clinton in that film?

12 posted on 09/12/2015 12:57:45 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Mena is an upcoming thriller film directed by Doug Liman and written by Gary Spinelli, about the life of Barry Seal, a former TWA pilot who became a drug smuggler in the 1980s and who was recruited later on by the DEA to provide intelligence. Wikipedia


13 posted on 09/12/2015 12:58:21 PM PDT by woofie
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They are shooting a movie about Mena Arkansas.. Barry Seal, which would touch people that are very sensitive to publicity.


14 posted on 09/12/2015 12:59:50 PM PDT by Walkingfeather
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To: dfwgator

The first was Art Scholl and his dog Aileron, killed in California during the filming of “Top Gun.”

I remember seeing Art Scholl perform at air shows years ago when I lived in California.


15 posted on 09/12/2015 1:04:58 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Liberals are like the Taliban and ISIS....destroying cultural icons they don't like.)
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To: dfwgator; FlingWingFlyer
Wonder who they got to play Bush and Clinton in that film?

Depends. IMDB has George W. Bush and Oliver North on the characters' list, but not Clinton. Wikipedia says Brian Dennehy plays Clinton (which doesn't sound right age-wise).

Doug Limon, the director, is the son of Arthur Limon, the Democratic Counsel in the Iran Contra investigation, so it's probably more of an anti-Bush than an anti-Clinton movie.

You can google "Barry Seal" for more and his allegations about the Bush brothers. It sounds like the movie was set up to attack Jeb Bush, who the film makers may have figured would be the Republican nominee.

16 posted on 09/12/2015 1:12:08 PM PDT by x
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To: Walkingfeather

Mena— the joining point of commonality of the Clintons and the Bush money laundering and “company” connex.

It leads to : Webb Hubbell, Bill Clinton’s nose, his brother’s nose, the Rodham brothers (both fat nose candy lovers), Rose Law Firm, Whitewater funny money, the Stephens bank “drop box” for cash payments of “mortgages” from the “field drops” of the returning planes— just for starters. The “parking meter” company of Webb Hubbell’s that refurbished and shipped M-16s— located at the Mena airport “trade zone”. And finally— ALL of the Clinton murders swirl around the powder monkeys.

Eugene Hasenfus (the loader/pusher in the C130), Pablo Escobar and the Shining Path maoists.

This film doesn’t discuss the Clintons— and the Bushes.. it is worthless.


17 posted on 09/12/2015 1:12:25 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: x

Fine by me Bushes=Clintons.....I want neither.


18 posted on 09/12/2015 1:22:57 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Goose wasn’t a pilot.

He was the RIO.


19 posted on 09/12/2015 1:23:14 PM PDT by shibumi ("Ego nunquam ubi sub ubi.")
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20 posted on 09/12/2015 1:24:30 PM PDT by EveningStar
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