MORGANTON, Ga. – Military investigators were expected to arrive Tuesday in north Georgia at the scene of a Navy plane that crashed in dense woods, killing at least three crew members.
The Florida-based T-39N Sabreliner just missed a house when it crashed Monday afternoon and authorities were looking for a fourth person believed to be aboard, officials said.
Naval Air Station Pensacola spokesman Harry White said authorities had not confirmed whether the pilot was among those killed when the training plane went down. No one on the ground was injured, he said.
The plane was part of Training Air Wing 6, which conducts routine cross-country missions through Fannin County, where it crashed, about two hours north of Atlanta, on the edge of the North Carolina and Tennessee borders, White said.
Searchers found three bodies. The twin-jet plane can carry two pilots and seven passengers, according to a Navy Web site.