Steve Mensch, the president of Tyler Perry Studios, died on Friday, Dec. 6, as a small plane he was piloting crashed in Homosassa, Florida. Tyler Perry said, 'Steve loved flying, and he loved that plane;

Steve Mensch, the president of Tyler Perry Studios, died after the plane he piloted crashed in Florida, according to multiple reports.

Mensch was saluted as a strong advocate of the film tax credit that helped make Georgia popular with film studios.