MUMBAI: All seven passengers aboard a plane, including Tarzan actor Joe Lara and his wife, are presumed dead after it crashed in a lake near Nashville.

The small business jet crashed at around 11:00 am local time on Saturday, after taking off from Tennessee Airport for Florida.

The plane went down into Percy Priest Lake. The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed seven people had been aboard the plane.

By Saturday night, operations had switched from search and rescue to recovery efforts.

"We are no longer in an attempt to (look) for live victims at this point so we're now recovering as much as we can from the crash site," he said.

RCFR said that recovery operations had found "several components of the aircraft as well as human remains" in a debris field about half a mile wide.

Lara played Tarzan in the 1989 television movie "Tarzan in Manhattan." The actor later starred in the television series "Tarzan: The Epic Adventures," which ran from 1996-1997.

His wife Gwen Shamblin Lara, whom he married in 2018, was the leader of a Christian weight-loss group called Weigh Down Ministries.

Credits: India Today