Updated: May 30 2021, 21:13 ET
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GWEN Shamblin Lara and her family may have been en route to a MAGA-themed event in Florida when their plane crashed.
Authorities said all seven people onboard are presumed dead after the private jet went down in Tennessee on Saturday and a recovery operation is still underway.
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A Facebook post suggests Shamblin Lara and her family may have been on their way to a MAGA eventCredit: Getty Images - Getty
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One of the MAGA events speakers said she was heartbroken over the crashCredit: AFP
The Federal Aviation Administration told WTVF that the plane departed from the Smyrna Rutherford County Airport just before 11am.
“Tarzan: The Epic Adventures” actor Joe Lara was killed in a plane crash that left his wife and five others dead in Tennessee over the weekend. The 58-year-old was with his wife, church founder Gwen Shamblin Lara, when the plane crashed into Percy Priest Lake outside of Nashville, Rutherford County Fire & Rescue said. Joe Lara first portrayed the titular adventurer in 1989′s “Tarzan in .
SMYRNA, Tenn. (AP) Investigators on Sunday continued searching for the bodies of seven people believed killed in the crash a day earlier of a small jet into a Tennessee lake, including an actor who portrayed Tarzan in a 1990s television series.
Rutherford County Fire Rescue Capt. John Ingle said in a statement Sunday that recovery efforts were ongoing at Percy Priest Lake near Smyrna. He said efforts also were focused on examining a half mile-wide debris field in the lake.
County officials identified the victims in a news release late Saturday as Brandon Hannah, Gwen S. Lara, William J. Lara, David L. Martin, Jennifer J. Martin, Jessica Walters and Jonathan Walters, all of Brentwood, Tennessee. Their names were released after family members had been notified.
The Tarzan actor Joe Lara along with his wife and Christian diet guru Gwen S Lara are among the seven people who are presumed to have died in a plane crash in Tennessee. Joe Lara had played the title role of Tarzan in the television series Tarzan: The Epic Adventures, in the 1990s. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the Cessna C501 plane was heading from nearby Smyrna Rutherford County Airport to Palm Beach International Airport.