Photo: Brett James | By Lars Brandle, Billboard | Brett James, the acclaimed songwriter who won a Grammy Award for his work on Carrie Underwood’s “Jesus, Take The Wheel,” has died in a plane crash. He was 57. According to WLOS, James was on board a small plane that went down in Macon County near Franklin, North Carolina, around 3 p.m. EST on Thursday, Sept. 18.
None of the three passengers on board survived, authorities say. The FAA reports that the aircraft was registered to Brett Cornelius of Brentwood, Tennessee; the artist’s full name is Brett James Cornelius.
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Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Facebook | We mourn the untimely loss of Hall of Fame member Brett James (“Jesus Take The Wheel” / “When The Sun Goes Down”), a 2020 inductee who was killed in a small-engine airplane crash on Sept. 18. He was 57.
[Also killed in the crash that killed Brett James was his wife Melody Carole and step-daughter (Melody’s daughter) Meryl Maxwell Wilson.]
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Brett James, Grammy-Award Winning Songwriter, Along With His Wife and Step-Daughter, Dies In Plane Crash,
