Debris From Air Collision Inspected; 4 Dead Named

Investigators Saturday inspected aircraft wreckage scattered widely over the desert near Tehachapi, seeking the cause of an in-flight collision of an Air Force jet and a single-engine private plane that claimed four lives.

The dead were identified as Marvin (Andy) Andelin, 51, owner of Pacific Aerographics of Santa Ana; photographer Jim Nenneman, 34, of Santa Ana, an employee of the firm that takes aerial photographs; and two officers, Maj. Michael J. Keane, 33, of Mt. Prospect, Ill., and 1st Lt. Gregory B. Hoglan, 26, of University City, Mo. Andelin and Keane were the pilots, authorities said.

The Air Force plane, a T-38 Talon training jet, on a training mission out of Edwards Air Force Base, and the Cessna 206 collided just after 11 a.m. Friday, scattering debris in an area known as Cameron Canyon.

AF Investigation

Lt. Eric Schnaible, a spokesman at Edwards, said the Air Force has formed a board of officers to investigate the crash. “They’re taking a look at the wreckage,” Schnaible said Saturday. “That will be part of the investigation.”

The civilian end of the investigation will be headed by Audrey Shutte of the National Transportation Safety Board, according to Federal Aviation Administrtation spokesman Russell Park.

For four hours after Friday’s crash, the tragedy was doubly difficult for Peggy Andelin, wife of one of the victims. She knew only that one of the company’s two planes were involved in the collision, but not which one. Her husband, Marvin, was in one of the planes and her son, Don, was in the other.

‘Both Were Out’

“I didn’t know which one it was . . . because both were out,” she said Saturday in a telephone interview from her Irvine home.

The Andelins had been married 32 years. Her husband had never had a fear of flying, Peggy Andelin said.

“Absolutely none. He’d been flying since he was 16,” she said.

She said the photographer killed with her husband had worked for the family-owned firm for about four years.