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Compilation: ATC transcripts, flight path, statements

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This FAA compilation, released through the National Archives and The Black Vault, covers Japan Airlines Flight 628's sighting over Alaska on January 11, 1987. It includes an FAA incident report dated February 1987, a chronology of the communications between the crew and Anchorage ARTCC, and statements from controllers and a meteorologist. Radar showed no traffic near the aircraft apart from weather clutter. The report says Captain Terauchi later believed the lights were village lights distorted by ice crystals.

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“Thompson”4 pages

  • p. 7 …My name is Ricky Thompson (RT). I am employed as an Air Traffic Control Specialist by…
  • p. 9 …into the Dl5 position to help Ricky Thompson (RT) because JL628 was reporting an unidentified object…
  • p. 10 …At approx imately 1632 UTC the Sector 15 Controller, Ricky Thompson, advised me that JL628 had…
  • p. 14 …I could not understand what the pilots request was, and my instructor, Randy Thompson (RT) took…
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