{"id":2035590,"date":"2025-09-19T22:21:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2035590"},"modified":"2025-09-19T22:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:21:22","slug":"brett-james-dies-songwriter-killed-in-plane-crash-carrie-underwood-pays-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/brett-james-dies-songwriter-killed-in-plane-crash-carrie-underwood-pays-tribute\/","title":{"rendered":"Brett James Dies: Songwriter Killed in Plane Crash \u2014 Carrie Underwood Pays Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Country music songwriter Brett James<\/a>, who was best known for penning hit songs such as Carrie Underwood<\/a>\u2019s \u201cJesus Take the Wheel\u201d and Kenny Chesney<\/a>\u2019s \u201cWhen the Sun Goes Down,\u201d has died in a plane crash with his wife and stepdaughter on September 19. He was 57. According to reports, a small-engine plane registered to James went down in Franklin, North Carolina, near Iotla Valley Elementary School after departing from Nashville just a few hours prior. \u201cA Cirrus SR22T crashed in a field in Franklin, North Carolina, around 3 p.m. local time on Thursday, Sept. 18. Three people were on board,\u201d the Federal Aviation Administration (Faa) said in a statement. \u201cThe…<\/div>\n

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Country music songwriter Brett James, who was best known for penning hit songs such as Carrie Underwood\u2019s \u201cJesus Take the Wheel\u201d and Kenny Chesney\u2019s \u201cWhen the Sun Goes Down,\u201d has died in a plane crash with his wife and stepdaughter on September 19. He was 57. According to reports, a small-engine plane registered to James […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2035591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2035590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Brett-James-Dies-Songwriter-Killed-in-Plane-Crash-\u2014-Carrie.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2035590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2035591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2035590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2035590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2035590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}