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Compilation: transcript, interview, statement, news release

FAA via National Archives / The Black Vault · 9 pages · text by OCR

This FAA compilation, released through The Black Vault, covers an incident on January 29, 1987 involving Alaska Airlines Flight 53. The Boeing 737 was flying from Nome to Anchorage when its crew saw a fast-moving target on their weather radar about 60 miles west of McGrath, Alaska. The file includes an incident record, a certified controller transcript, the FAA's crew interview statement and a news release. Anchorage Center's radar data showed no such aircraft, and the USAF reported no military traffic in the area.

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“Anchorage”6 pages

  • p. 3 …Agencies Making Transmissions Abbreviation Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center ZAN Alaska Airlines Flight 53 AS53…
  • p. 4 …headed towards Anchorage 0339:36 ZAN Ah I have one coming outbound from Anchorage towards McGrath…
  • p. 6 …53 had reported to Anchorage Center that it had seen a target on their weather radar…
  • p. 7 …Willoughby Assistant Manager, Automation Anchorage ARTCC
  • p. 8 …The Captain asked the FAA air traffic controller in Anchorage if there was "any traffic in…
  • p. 9 …The flight crew was interviewed by FAA inspectors when they landed at Anchorage. Material developed as…
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Hearing transcript, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 9 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.