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Fifty lives were lost when Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed outside of Buffalo on Feb. 12, 2009. Among them were two members of Chuck Mangione’s band: saxophonist Gerry Niewood and guitarist Coleman Mellett. Mellett, a 1992 graduate of DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, left behind hundreds of hours of recordings he’d made in the New Jersey home he shared with his wife, jazz singer Jeanie Bryson. “He was up there in our studio, banging these things out, year after year,” Bryson said. “They were never completed.” Suddenly it seemed like they might never be. In some cases the music amounted to snippets: multiple takes of different sections of different songs, some recorded in digital formats that were no longer so easy to access.The story of the resurrection of the 34-year-old Mellett’s music is detailed in a documentary screening Thursday night at the AFI Silver Theatre.