Authorities working to determine cause of crash
The Coast Guard located a missing plane in a marsh near Jones River early Monday morning, said Savannah-Chatham police spokeswoman Gena Bilbo.
Search and rescue efforts by the Savannah-Chatham aviation and marine patrols, the Coast Guard and the Department of Natural Resources to locate the aircraft continued well past 2:30 a.m. and was scheduled to resume at first light, Bilbo said.
Bilbo said the small, private four-person plane flying from North Carolina was cleared to land at the airport, but it never did.The last transmission from the plane came about 6:55 p.m., after it had been cleared for landing, she said.
It was not clear how many passengers were on board, she said late Sunday night.
No further information was immediately available.