New lawsuit filed to find answers after fatal plane crash on Tom Cruise movie

New lawsuits relating to the fatal plane crash on the set of Tom Cruise’s 2015 movie American Made have raised questions over who is to blame.
The accident, which occurred during the filming of the movie based on real-life American pilot and Pablo Escobar drug smuggler Barry Seal, killed two pilots and left another with physical injuries.
Alan Purwin and Carlos Berl both died on the scene, while Jimmy Lee Garland was left paralysed, with no feeling in the lower half of his body.
Families of the deceased pilots having filed papers and are suing the producers of the film, Imagine Entertainment, Vendian Entertainment and Cross Creek Pictures.
The families are citing wrongful death and seeking damages, according to court documents obtained by People Magazine. The documents also accused the production companies of repeatedly ignoring safety procedures to save time and money because the movie was “behind schedule”.
The suit filed by Berl’s family claimed that there was “limited flight data and weather instrumentation” on board the aircraft, and asked for stricter regulations on safety on movie sets.
Berl’s family have also filed a suit against Garland claiming he was the pilot of the plane at the time of the accident, which Garland has denied to The Hollywood Reporter. Garland has claimed he was only there as a “mechanic”, but has no memory of the flight and cannot confirm whether Purwin or Berl were piloting the aircraft on that fatal day.
“The impact of the loss of their father and only real parent simply cannot be overstated,” attorney Jeff Korek told The Hollywood Reporter.
“We hope to put a dent in the pocketbook of the motion picture industry. We want the industry to understand and practice one concept, which the Berl family would expect to be put ahead of all other considerations in the making of a film, namely, safety before profits at all times.”