 steve miller wrote most of his band's hits but one of them actually came from someone else the jet airliner was a song that was written by paul pina who's a really great guitar player and songwriter who should have had a big time career but had a lot of bad luck and we got together and worked on this song and it's the song that we usually close the show with you know the audience really loves it paul pena's jet airliner was in the top 10 in july of 77.