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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 3 JAL UNIDENTIFIED TRAFFIC SIGHTING Order List continued 0 $57. 2 5 12 . Simulated Radar Data, JAL Flight 1628. (5 color 7 1/2" X 7 1/2" photos, 5 pages) 0 $0.55 0 $10 . 00 0 $11 . 0 0 0 $25.00 0 $25.00 0 $50.00 FREE ITE MS : Q fre e Q free Q free 13 . Selected portions of voice transcriptions, pilot of JAL 1628 and FAA controllers, in chronological order; as released by FAA Public Affairs Office, March 5, 1987. (Data extracted from transcription in item #9) 14. Series of four black and white 5 11 X 7" glossy photographs of partially regenerated radar data, as photographed by Paul Steucke, January 7, 1987. 15. Series of four color 5" X 7" photographs of partially regenerated radar data, as photographed by Paul Steucke, January 7, 1987. 1 6 • 17. 1 8. Cassette tape of Interview with Captain Terauchi. 57 minutes. (Same data as item #5) Cassette Tamefujl.. tape of Interview with First Officer 45 minutes. (Same data as item #7) Cassette tape of communications between Air Traffic Control and JAL Flight 1628. 1 hour 30 minutes. (Same data as 23 page transcription in item 09) 19. News release by FAA Public Affairs (Information constructed from personal notes provided by Jim Derry, obtained in interviews with JAL Flight 1628 crew the evening of 11/17/86) (2 pages) 20. News release statement March 5, 1987, by FAA Public Affairs Office upon release of investigation m_a t er i a 1 s . 21. Description of "Split-Beacon Target" by FAA Alaskan Region Airway Facilities Division. ( 1 page) - more-
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