JOHN WILLIAM LIBOLT
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Officer Rank: Police Officer
Memorial Panel: 34-E: 10
Department: Costa Mesa, California, P.D.
End of Watch: March 10, 1987
Cause: AIRC
Age: 39
Years of Service: 15
Description: Police Officers Libolt and James Ketchum died in an inadvertent mid-air collision with another police helicopter during the high speed chase of a suspect on the ground. Jeffrey Pollard, a civilian flight instructor, also died in the crash. Two other officers survived their injuries.
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