Country Music Singer-Songwriter Brett James Dies In Plane Crash At 57

Grammy-winning songwriter Brett James died Thursday in a plane crash in Franklin, North Carolina. He was 57. The single-engine plane, registered under James’ legal name, Brett Cornelius, went down in a field around 3 p.m., roughly 270 miles southeast of Nashville, according to flight-tracking data from FlightAware and a statement from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). All three people aboard were killed, CNN reported. The video player is currently playing an ad. James’ decades-long career produced multiple chart-topping hits and earned him induction into the National Songwriters Hall of Fame. He was best known for writing Carrie Underwood’s Grammy-nominated crossover...