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This package was compiled by the FAA Alaskan Region Public Affairs Office in Anchorage and sent to FAA managers with a memo from Paul Steucke dated March 5, 1987. It gathers material on the November 17, 1986 sighting by the crew of Japan Air Lines flight 1628: a news release, pilot and controller transcripts, crew interviews and radar analysis. The FAA concluded that it could not confirm the event. It attributed the second radar target to a split, uncorrelated return from the JAL Boeing 747 and planned no further investigation.
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page 6 - flight 1628 0249 : 52 Rl5 0250: 00 UA69 0250 :05 UA69 0250:07 Rl5 0250: 14 UA69 0250:46 Rl5 0250:52 JL1628 0251:32 UA69 0251 : 49 Rl5 0252 :31 TOI'EM 0252:36 Rl5 0253 :10 Rl5 0253 : 13 JL1628 0253 : 27 Rl5 0253:31 JL1628 0254: 04 TOI'EM United sixty nine heavy; roger. The Japan Air says the traffic is in his seven to eight o'clock position and one zero miles in-trail. Okay, we're lookin. Why don't you get us a little closer? United sixty nine heavy; roger. Another additional ten degrees left. Roger, United sixty nine. United sixty nine, that's what he says. Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy, sey the position of your traffic OCM. Ah-OCM distinguishinJ but, ah-ah-your I guess, ah-twelve o'clock below-ah-you, over. Ah, Center fran United ah sixty nine. Ah-the-ah-Japan Airliner is silln.ietted against a-ah-light sky. I don't see anytx:xJy around him at all. I can see his contra,il but I sure don't see any other airplanes. Do you see him? United sixty nine heavy, ah-negative sir. We got just a very few primary hits on the ah-target and then ah-we really haven't got a good track on him ever. If you want we've got extra gas we could bop up arnther five or six th:Jusand feet and turn around. Toten (militacy Cl30 flight) seven one, ah roger sir. If you'd like ah-standby, ---- Toten seven one, turn ah-right, headirq 'h«> five, correction turn right, headinJ 'h«> seven zero, radar vectors to intercept. Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy, descend at pilot discretion, maintain flight level 'h«> five zero. Japan Air sixteen ~enty eight, ah-pilot's discretion, maintain ah-ah-'h«> five zero, so-ah-ah-I cannot, I couldn't see ah-U-F-0, over. Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy. Understand you cb not see the traffic any long-er. Affinnative. Okay sir, we're searchi.rXJ this time, we think we have him. TOTEM = Militacy Cl30 a,:ircraft
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