Four people have been confirmed dead after a small plane crashed in Gordon County, Georgia, possibly amid snowy conditions.
Just before 2 p.m. on Saturday, the Federal Aviation Administration released a statement saying that a Cessna Citation had disappeared from radar about 50 miles north of Atlanta. They estimated it had been in the vicinity of Gordon or Cherokee County when it had vanished around 10:10 a.m.
It had taken off from Atlanta Regional Airport-Falcon Field in Peachtree City, Ga., just before 10 a.m.
The wreckage of the plane was discovered around noon Saturday in Gordon County by one of the many civilians who had volunteered to help the Gordon County Sheriff's Office in their search.
The Sheriff's Office said there was no sign of survivors.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators were at the scene.
"Reports from around 10 a.m. EST Saturday morning from the Tom B. David Field Airport just south of Calhoun showed snow falling with visibility between three-quarters a mile and a mile. This snow had started falling around 8:15 a.m. according to the reports from the airport," AccuWeather Meteorologist Alyson Hoegg said.
Reports from Peachtree City-Falcon Field Airport showed rain was falling at 10 a.m., meteorologist Hoegg added.