Sunday, 30 May 2021

Tarzan star Joe Lara dies aged 58 in Tennessee plane crash

<div></div> <p>Actor Joe Lara – best known for starring in the TV series Tarzan: The Epic Adventures – has been killed in a plane crash in Tennessee.</p> <p>The star, 58, was one of seven people to die when a small jet crashed into a lake near the town of Smyrna.</p> <p>His wife, Gwen Shamblin Lara, who founded a church in 1999, was also among the dead.</p> <p>On Sunday, investigators continued searching for the bodies of the victims.</p> <p>Captain John Ingle, of Rutherford County Fire Rescue, said that recovery efforts were ongoing at Percy Priest Lake and focused on a half mile-wide area.</p> <div class="sdc-site-layout-sticky-region " data-interscroller="true" data-format="floated-mpu" data-role="sticky-region" data-component-name="sdc-site-layout"> <div class="sdc-site-layout-sticky-region__target"> <div class="sdc-site-layout-sticky-region__mask"> <div class="sdc-site-layout-sticky-region__content"> <div class="sdc-site-au-wrapper "> <div class="sdc-site-au site-component-vertical-margin" data-ad-format="mpu-1" data-type="" aria-hidden="true"> <p> <span class="sdc-site-au__label-text" data-label-text="Advertisement">Advertisement</span> </p> </p></div> </p></div> </p></div> </p></div> </p></div> </p></div> <p>Lara first appeared as the hero created by Edgar Rice Burroughs in TV movie Tarzan In Manhattan before reprising the role in the follow-up TV series.</p> <div class="sdc-article-widget sdc-article-related-stories" data-component-name="sdc-article-related-stories"> <div class="sdc-article-related-stories__content"> <h3 class="sdc-article-related-stories__title">More on Tennessee</h3> </p></div> </div> <p>He gave up acting in 2002 to pursue a career in country music.</p> <p>His wife, 66, founded the Remnant Fellowship Church in Brentwood in 1999 and wrote a faith-based weight loss book.</p> <p>The Federal Aviation Administration said the Cessna C501 plane was heading from nearby Smyrna Rutherford County Airport to Palm Beach International Airport when it crashed on Saturday.</p> <p>Smyrna is located about 20 miles (32km) southeast of Nashville.</p> <p>“With dive teams in the water, we are strongly urging civilian boaters to stay away from the public safety boats,” Mr Ingle said.</p> <p>The National Transportation Safety Board had a lead investigator at the site.</p> <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://patabook.com/news/2021/05/30/tarzan-star-joe-lara-dies-aged-58-in-tennessee-plane-crash/">Tarzan star Joe Lara dies aged 58 in Tennessee plane crash</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://patabook.com/news">Patabook News </a>.</p>

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