Three people were killed including a Grammy winning song writer in the crash of a single engine plane Thursday afternoon.
FlightAware data shows the plane took off from an airport in Nashville shortly after 12:30PM and crashed in a field around 3PM near an Elementary School, adjacent to the Macon County Airport, near Franklin North Carolina.
No one on the ground was injured and the cause of the crash has not yet been determined.
FAA registration records report the plane is owned by Brett Cornelius, of Tennessee.
Cornelius, who goes by Brett James and co-wrote songs like ‘Jesus Take the Wheel’ and ‘When the Sun Goes Down,’ died in the crash. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2020.