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Xincoln JournalMonday, November 21, 1977 2 9#AP WIREPHOTOAn unidentified Nebraska National Guardsman inspects one of the larger pieces of debris left by Sunday’s crash of an Air National Guard jet.Two Lincoln men were killed when the plane crashed in a field near Dodge.Jet crash kills 2 Lincoln GuardsmenAir Force investigators were in Dodge County today trying to find the reason for a Nebraska Air National Guard plane crash that killed two Lincoln men.Guard officials identified the men as Capts. Nolan C. Voigt, 38, 3360 Woodsshire, and Raymond C. Hesse, 35,1775 S. 77th.The men were killed when their twin-engine RF-4C Phantom jet aircraft crashed in a corn field about 4:10 a.m. Sunday five miles south of Dodge, which is located in the northwest corner of Dodge County, 50 miles north of Lincoln.Guard spokesmen said the plane took off from Lincoln at 4 a.m. on a routine, low-level reconnaissance flight. It was a night radar mission that was part of a readiness evaluationof the 155th Tactical Reconnaissance Group.There was no conversation between the men and the control tower in Lincoln before the crash, officials said.Guard spokesmen said both men were combat veterans of the Southeast Asia conflict andreported by an unidentified hunter to the Dodge police at 4:15 a m , according to the Dodge County Sheriff's office. A deputy sheriff and Dodge policeman found the wreckageat 4 21 a.m.were experienced pilots and highly skilled in the operation of the type of plane they were flying.The plane crash wasCapt. Voigt, the pilot, was a native of New Braunfels, Texas. He flew 143 combat missions in Vietnam and had served as an Air Force flight instructor. He had been amember of the Nebraska Air Guard since 1976.Capt. Voigt went to work for the Lincoln School District Oct. 11 as transportation foreman, in charge of school buses and other transportation Prior to that he worked for the Air Guard.He is survived by his wife, Sherry, and two children, Wendy and Brian.Capt. Hesse, a native of Deadwood, S.D., also was aveteran of Southeast Asia, with 87 combat missions. He wasserving as weapons system operator and navigator of the flight Sunday.Capt Hesse had been employed by the Nebraska AirGuard since 1971 as a weapons systems instructor.He is survived by his wife, Kay; sons Robert, Christopher and Jonathan, and his father, Arthur Hesse of Alliance.Inmate faces Gerheardt murder chargeA 20-year-old Nebraska Penal Complex inmate was charged Monday with first-degree murder in connection with the Sept. 3 death of inmate Marvin Gerheardt.Gerheardt, 32, was one ofsuicide designation, Lahners said, “At the time. I felt it was necessary to make a determination and that (suicide) was the most logical.’’ But there were many unanswered questions about the case, hebar-press guidelines about releasing evidence before the trial.Lahners and other sources said the earlier suicide report was used to make those involved feel there was no threatjury term in District Court.At the time of his death Gerheardt was serving a sentence for burglary and was awaiting trial in federal and district court on the escape charges. :___ 1____i : -__
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Lincoln Journal
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Mon, Nov 21, 1977
Page 27
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