The flight instructor for Top Gun: Maverick was killed during a New Mexico air show crash. Charles Thomas “Chuck” Coleman was the only person on board the two-seat Extra Flugzeugbau EA300 monoplane when it went down around 2:30 pm on Sunday during the Las Cruces Air and Space Expo at Las Cruces International Airport. Coleman was performing aerobatics when the plane crashed about a half-mile West of the airport. The air show was called off after the crash. Coleman was the aerobatic flight instructor on the 2022 movie Top Gun: Maverick, even having trained one of the lead actors, Miles Teller, who even appeared on his Instagram.