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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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“The Sun”4 pages

  • p. 32 …Gordon About 0.1 • • • Just right on the horizon, the sun was setting? Yeah, yes. So…
  • p. 38 …The north of Alaska in mid-November you cannot even see the sun; the darkness continues…
  • p. 46 …Yukon diagonally below us at the ri1ht, the sun was setting down in the Southwest, painting…
  • p. 58 …Beckner • or was it dusk? Or was the sun still up er, how would you describe…
page 7 - flight 1628
0254:09 Rl5
0255:25 TCYrEM
0255:35 R15
0255 :38 TCYrEM
0323:
Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy, flash your landing
lights please.
Ah, yes sir, we've got him insight.
Totem seven one, do you see any traffic in his vicinity?
Not flashing any lights at this time sir.
JL1628 landed at Ancoorage International Airport
(approximate)

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