A plane crashed on the Medellin, Colombia set of Mena, the latest Tom Cruise film, Friday night, killing two people and injuring another. Cruise was not on the plane, it has been reported.

A spokesperson for Universal Pictures shared in a statement: "An aircraft carrying crew members crashed while returning to Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport in Medellin following production wrap on the film Mena resulting in two fatalities. Further details are not available at this time. On behalf of the production, our hearts and prayers go out to the crew members and their families at this difficult time."

It is believed that bad weather forced the twin-engine Aerostar against the side of the Alto de la Clarita mountain.

The two men killed in the accident were David Purwin, an American film pilot and Carlos Berl, a Colombian. Jimmy Lee Garland, another American pilot, was hospitalized with severe injuries.

Purwin, founder and president of Helinet Technologies based in L.A., recently featured in a segment about aerial photography in Variety's Artisans video series.

The company normally provides aerial surveillance technology to law enforcement and government agencies, however, Purwin had worked on a few films including Transformers, Pearl Harbor and Pirates of the Caribbean.

Directed by Doug Liman and produced by Universal Pictures, Mena has been on shoot in Colombia since August. In the movie, Cruise is Barry Seal, an American pilot who worked for Pablo Escobar - Colombo's most notorious drug lord.

Seal eventually became a spy for the Drug Enforcement Agency and was instrumental in Escobar's takedown in 1993.

Also starring Jesse Plemons, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright and Caleb Landry Jones, Mena benefitted from Medellin's film incentives of cash rebates of up to 15%. It was the first international production to do so.