“FAA”38 pages
- p. 3 CONTENTS
March 5, 1987
Selected Haterial
Relative to the FAA Investi gation of
Japan Air Lines…
- p. 4 …FAA's Regional Public Affairs Officer Paul Steucke pointed out that FAA
normally does not investigate…
- p. 5 AAL-5, FAA
February 4, 1987
SELEX:TED PORI'IONS OF TRANSCRIPI'IOO
~ THE INCIDENI' INVOLVING…
- p. 6 …Are you (Fairbanks FAA tower) pickin up a primary target
right with that aircraft?
Ah, ro…
- p. 7 …Approach center (Fairbanks FAA tower) on the sixty one line.
Approach.
Look at your radar. We…
- p. 12 Paul Steucke
FAA Public Affairs
701 C Street, Box 14
Anch. AK 99513 ~·1 arch 5…
- p. 13 …MILE--
SECONDARY
RADAR
RETURN
(Beacon)
(Transponder)
--11
FAA
RADAR
SAME AIRCRAFT
RETURN
(Skin-
Surface)
--v'-RADAR…
- p. 16 Paul Steucke
FAA, Public Affairs Officer
Alaskan Region
701 C Street, Box 14
Anchorage, Alaska 995…
- p. 17 …Gordon, FSD0-63, and Japanese
Interpertor Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Airways Facilities, interviewed JAL
Captain Kenju Terauchi…
- p. 38 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan Region,
Airway Facilities Division. Received by FAA 1…
- p. 39 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan
Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received by FAA 1…
- p. 40 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan
Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received by FAA 1…
- p. 41 …Received by FAA 1/2/87
- p. 42 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan
Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received ~y FAA 1…
- p. 43 …Received by FAA 1/2/87
- p. 44 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan
Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received by FAA 1…
- p. 45 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Milnoto, FAA Alaskan
Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received ~y FAA 1…
- p. 46 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mi.mote, FAA Alaskan
Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received by FAA…
- p. 47 …Received by FAA 1/2/87
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- p. 48 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan
Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received 'by !AA 1…
- p. 49 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan
Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received 'by YAA 1…
- p. 50 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan
Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received by FAA 1…
- p. 51 …Beckner, AAL-207, and Japanese
Interpertor Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Airways Facilities, interviewed JAL First
Officer Takanori…
- p. 72 …Tamefuji Ah, I read the FAA news hummm, ah, humm, I found military radar
picked up…
- p. 74 ...
A JAL flight engineer, Yoshie Tsukuba, was interviewed by Pete
Beckner of FAA on January 15…
- p. 78 …When I was interviewed here at the first
time by FAA personnel, I was not sure…
- p. 88 …holding the data and he said yes.
FAA Form 1600°32°112-111
AT ~ra_9e…
- p. 89 …INTERVIE:WE D/REVI EWE:D - - - - - __ ,
FAA Form 1600·32° l cz.11,
(pt' - JtJ_..,. ~~h…
- p. 94 …Mickle, FAA S/A
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FAA Form 160:0-32-112.n)
FILE NO. - - - - __ _,,_ - -·
FOR OFFICIAL USE…
- p. 95 …AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
All'I Tl'IANS,.Ol'ITATION 8ECURITY
Captain TEPAIX:lil stated that FAA ATC…
- p. 100 Paul Steucke, FAA
Alaskan Region
701 C St . Box 14
Anc h. AK 99513
March 5…
- p. 101 …It was noted at the FAA interview of the flight crew, which was conducted
when they…
- p. 102 …have been produced or obtained by the FAA in this investigation. They
are listed on the…
- p. 103 …00 . )
TOTAL AMOUNT ENCLOSED: $. ___________
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FAA WILL PAY COST OF DELIVERY SERVICE BY REGULAR FIRST CLASS
U…
- p. 104 …0 $1.10 6 •
FAA Form 3112, Inspection and Surveillance
Record; notes by Inspector Jack Wright…
- p. 105 …Mimoto of FAA Alaskan
Region. Enilish translation of item #6.
(13 pages)
Transcript of Interview with…
- p. 106 …Selected portions of voice transcriptions, pilot
of JAL 1628 and FAA controllers, in chronological
order; as…
- p. 107 …Alert Report from Director of FAA Alaskan Region
to FAA Administrator, 12/31/86. Record of…
Paul Steucke, FAA
Alaskan Region
701 C St . Box 14
Anc h. AK 99513
March 5, 1987
UNIDENI'IFIED AIR TRAFFIC SIGHI'INGS, ALASKA
(1 ) An Alaska Airlines flight crew of a Boeing 737 aircraft, flight k~3,
enroute from Nome to Anchorage, Alaska, on January 29, 1987, reported to the
FAA Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center, the sighting of unidentified
air traffic on their onboard weather radar system. The incident occurred at
about 6:39 pm, 60 rr:iles west of the community of McGrath, which is
approximately 200 miles northwest of Anchorage. The aircraft was flying at
35 ,000 feet altitude at night, and the weather was clear.
Both pilots noticed the target on their weather radar scope and looked out
the window to see if there was any "traffic" in front of them. At no time did
either crewmember see anything outside the aircraft. The area is not within
radar coverage of the FAA and the military reported they did not have any
aircraft operating in the area at the time.
The flight crew of the Alaska Airlines passenger aircraft reported that the
target on their radar moved at a very high rate of speed, approximately 5 miles
on each sweep of the radar (5 miles per second). As the target moved off their
radar in front of them, they changed the range of their radar from 50 miles to
100 miles and saw the target briefly before it became lost in the ground
clutter created by the Alaska Range of mountains. The flight crew was
i nterviewed by FAA inspectors when they landed at Anchorage. The FAA has no
opinions or conclusions regarding the sighting.
(2 ) On January 11, 1987, at approximately 7:30 am (Sunday), Captain Kenjyu
Terauchi , piloting Japan Airlines flight #628, a Boeing 747 aircraft from
Iceland to Japan via Anchorage, Alaska, reported to the FAA Air Route Traffic
Control Center in Anchorage, that he was seeing a group of unusual lights in
f r ont of his aircraft.
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