Grammy-winning songwriter Brett James Dead in Plane Crash

[Drew]

https://nypost.com/2025/09/19/entert...-total-legend/ Brett James, the Grammy Award-winning songwriter behind some of country music’s biggest hits, including “Jesus Take the Wheel” and “I Hold On,” was killed in a plane crash in North Carolina on Thursday afternoon.
James, 57, Grammy Award-winning country music songwriter Brett James was flying on his private jet with his new wife and her 28-year-old daughter, who had just celebrated her birthday, when the plane crashed and killed them, officials said Friday.
James, 57 — who co-wrote and wrote songs for Taylor Swift, Dierks Bentley and Carrie Underwood — was with wife Melody Wilson, 59, and her daughter, Meryl Maxwell Wilson,

Rest In Peace

[john*thomas]

Took his wife and step daughter with him.

Rough.

[Leasie]

Dang. That is rough and heartbreaking.

[StudioJoe]

What a horrible way to go, with the two people whose protection and safety he was most concerned for: wife and daughter, and the daughter having just celebrated a birthday. According to friend and experienced pilot who for years owned a small plane and had access to NTSB and FAA crash reports, majority of those disasters are due to pilot error.