More information has surfaced a month after Brett James, a Grammy Award-winning songwriter, was killed in a plane crash in North Carolina at the age of 57.

James — who was piloting a Cirrus SR22T from Nashville, Tennessee to Franklin, North Carolina — lost control of his aircraft while trying to land on the runway at Macon County Airport (MCA), according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board reviewed by PEOPLE .

James “intended to perform a 360° turn to land” at MCA at around 2:48 p.m. local time on Sept. 18. He was at 6,800 feet at the time. As the plane was descending with a left turn, it went into a “tightening spiral” and plummeted into the ground, the report stated.

Surveillance cameras captured this moment as well as “multiple witnesses who re

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