Photos: Tarzan actor Joe Lara dies in plane crash along with his wife, her son-in-law & 4 others

Actor Joe Lara who starred in the TV series Tarzan: The Epic Adventures has been killed in a plane crash in Tennessee.

The star, 58, was one of seven people to die when a small jet crashed into the lake near Smyrna. His wife, Gwen Shamblin Lara, who founded a church in 1999, was also among the dead. Investigators on Sunday continued searching for the bodies of the victims. 

Captain John Ingle, of Rutherford County Fire Rescue, said on 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.

His wife, 66, founded the Remnant Fellowship Church in Brentwood in 1999 and wrote a faith-based weight loss book. 

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.

The plane is registered to Lara and her husband Joe - who played Tarzan in the 1989 film Tarzan in Manhattan and short-lived 1990s' TV series Tarzan: The Epic Adventures - through their company JL&GL Productions LP, WTVF reported. 

Elizabeth Hannah, Lara's daughter, sent out an internal text to families of the church telling them the plane 'had to go down for a controlled, quick landing,' WTVF reported. 

Late on Sunday the church released a statement confirming the deaths of Shamblin and Lara in the crash as well as Hannah's husband Brandon, church leaders David and Jennifer Martin; and Jonathan and Jessica Walters.

So sad, may their souls rest in perfect peace- AMEN.