Aaliyah died in a plane crash in 2001. She died because her plane had too much equipment on it, and too many people and all the weight from the people and equipment exceeded the weight capacity for the plane.ut with all the burns he died 30 minutes later as he was  being rushed to the hospital. Aaliyah was towards the front of the  plane, and when the plane crashed it exploded which caused a  fracture in her head.