The State - News from April 12, 1988

Military officials were warned of falsified pilot records at the Fresno Air National Guard base a year before the crash of a plane flown by a pilot who had faked his records, the Air Force reported. The F-4 piloted by Capt. Wesley Deane, 27, crashed in Arizona in June, killing Deane and his weapons officer, Maj. John Jordan Jr. Investigators determined later that Deane’s record improperly credited him with training flights that had never been made. Base officials said the records apparently were faked prior to June, 1986, when allegations of record falsifications were received anonymously over a military hot line.