Famed composer's plane crashes
VENTURA, Calif. — A plane registered to Oscar-winning “Titanic” composer James Horner has crashed in Southern California, but the identity of the one person who died had not been released.
Jay Cooper, an attorney for Horner, said the plane was one of several owned by the 61-year-old composer, and that no one has heard from him since the crash. “It was his plane and if he wasn’t in it, he would’ve called,” Cooper said Monday night.
The single-engine plane crashed Monday morning in the Los Padres National Forest, Ventura County fire spokesman Mike Lindbery said. The pilot was killed. No one else was on board.
Horner has been nominated for 10 Academy Awards, winning two for 1997’s best picture, “Titanic.” He composed the film’s score and its enduring theme song, “My Heart Will Go On.”
His scores for “Alien,” “Apollo 13,” “Field of Dreams,” “Braveheart,” “A Beautiful Mind,” “House of Sand and Fog” and “Avatar” also earned Oscar nods.
