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Wreckage of Navy jet found in Georgia; 4 dead
 File photo of a T-39 Sabreliner similar to the one that crashed. ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Authorities found the wreckage of a missing U.S. Navy jet in a mountainous area of northwestern Georgia Wednesday night, a Navy spokesman said. All four people on board died. "The Georgia State Patrol has found the wreckage of the aircraft in Walker County, Georgia, and unfortunately, there are no survivors," Matt Durhan with Pensacola (Florida) Naval Air Station told CNN Radio affiliate WSB-AM. According to Officer Keith Willingman with the Walker County Sheriff's Department, the T-39 Sabreliner was found around 10 p.m. on Johns Mountain near the town of Villanow, about 30 miles south of Chattanooga, Tennessee. The jet took off from Chattanooga at about 11 a.m. Tuesday and lost communications about 20 minutes later. The plane was carrying three military personnel -- two from the Navy and one from the Air Force -- and a civilian. It was en route to Pensacola NAS, where it was based, according to the Navy. The T-39, the military's version of Rockwell's Sabreliner executive jet, is a twin-jet utility plane that is used as a four-passenger executive transport, as light priority cargo transport and for radar and navigational training. CNN Radio's Raul Bali contributed to this report. 
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