Brett James’ poignant final Instagram posts featured his loved ones.

The singer, 57, was killed in a plane crash in North Carolina while travelling with his wife, 55-year-old Melody Carole Wilson, and her daughter, 28-year-old Meryl Maxwell Wilson, when their private craft went down in a field outside Franklin, North Carolina, on Thursday (18.09.25) afternoon.

Flight records show the aircraft left John C. Tune Airport in Nashville at 12.41pm and crashed just over two hours later near Iotla Valley Elementary School.

The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed there were no survivors, with local outlets FOX 17 and WTVF-TV reporting the crash.

Brett’s final family posts have now emerged in the wake of the tragedy.

On 16 June, Brett posted a photo of himself surrounded by relatives on a

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