Grammy-winning country artist Brett James died Thursday when a small plane he was flying in crashed in western North Carolina. He was 57.
Authorities said the Cirrus SR22T aircraft went down in a field near Iotla Valley Elementary School shortly before 3 p.m. Three people were aboard, and all were killed, according to WTVF. No one on the school campus, which is next to Macon County Airport, was injured.
Flight data shows the plane left Nashville’s John C. Tune Airport shortly after 1:40 p.m. for the roughly 250-mile trip to Franklin. The aircraft, built in 2016, was registered to James under his legal name, Brett Cornelius, of Brentwood, Tennessee.
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