The State - News from Aug. 17, 1986

A Kern County sheriff’s deputy, two search-and-rescue volunteers and a specially trained rescue dog were killed when their light plane struck a power line and crashed into a park east of Bakersfield. Sgt. Marvin Kline, 46, and Ray Bockman, 50, were being piloted by Doug Moonen, 46, on the training exercise in the Cessna 206. A Sheriff’s Department recorded statement said the trio were practicing looking for drowning victims while flying over the Kern River. The plane crashed several hundred yards from a wedding party, according to a park ranger. The plane was recently deeded to the Sheriff’s Department by the Drug Enforcement Agency, which had confiscated it in a drug raid.