The US Navy has been searching for a T-39 Sabreliner that left Chattanooga, Tenn., at 11 a.m. on Jan. 10 on a training flight, since it failed to show at NAS Pennsacola, Fla., at 3 p.m., as scheduled. The last contact with the aircraft came just 20 minutes after takeoff. On board were a Navy instructor, a Navy student, an Air Force student, and a civilian contract pilot. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the Civil Air Patrol had to halt search efforts Wednesday morning because of bad weather. CAP has five aircraft from its unit at Rome, Ga., ready to pick up the search.
The Senate confirmed new leaders of U.S. forces in Europe and the Middle East over the weekend. Lawmakers on June 29 also approved a reshuffling of Air Force officials that will put new faces in the service’s Pentagon headquarters as well as at its largest command.