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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.

  • p. 12 …Steucke said, "The controllers were doing their job right because they have to work with what…
  • p. 17 …it, but one of the people that work for me, I'm the office manager over…
  • p. 24 …Terauchi Working good R. Gordon Good, (laughter) F. Fujii Now how about communications, naviagion, or interferring…
  • p. 67 …this period of time when you were working with ••• T. Tamefuji Oh yeah, hurnmm P. Beckner…
  • p. 80 …I was working the R/Dl5 position from 0156 UTC, November 18, 1986 to 0230 UTC…
  • p. 81 …I was working the Dl5 position f r om 0156 UTC, November 18, 1986 to 0230…
  • p. 83 …I was working the Dl5 position from 0230 UTC, November 18, 1986, to 0530 UTC, November…
  • p. 84 …I was working the El position from 0006 UTC, November 18, 1986 to 0425 UTC, November…
  • p. 85 …1986, to 0900 UTC, November 18, I was working the Area Manager 18, 1986, to 0900…
  • p. 92 INSPECTION AND SURVEILLANCE RECORD 1. WORK A CT IV ITY • 2. UNI 3. HOURS Ille 1…
  • p. 93 INSPECTION AND SURVEILLANCE RECORD I. WORK ACTIVITY 2. UHl T:i . HOURS 4. NAME ANO ADDRESS…
  • p. 96 INSPECTION AHO SURVEILLANCE RECORD 1. WORK ACTIVITY '·NAME AMO AOORESS 01" CARRIER, OPERATOR, AIRPORT, AGENCY, OR…
  • p. 105 …Position Logs. (Record of which employees were working each position at what time.) (2 pages) Anchorage…
  • p. 108 …Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group; Rebecca Osborne and Catherine Scott, IBM; Karen Griggs…
  • p. 109 …Creation of Raster Image Master Files Author Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative (FADGI) - Still Image Working Group…
  • p. 110 Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group - August 201 o Table of Contents SCOPE ............................................................................................................................ 2…
  • p. 111 Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group -August 201 O Image Processing ....................................................................................................................................................... 47 Color Correction…
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  • p. 113 Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group - August 201 o I. INTRODUCTION Context The Technical…
  • p. 114 Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group -August 2010 ln general, master files have the…
  • p. 115 - Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group -August 2010 II. TECHNICAL OVERVIEW Raster Image Characteristics…
  • p. 116 Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group -August 2010 printing images all render high-bit…
  • p. 117 Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group -August 2010 Viewing Conditions A variety of factors…
  • p. 118 Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group - August 201 O temperature may also be necessary…
  • p. 119 Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group - August 2010 Future work of the Still Image…
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  • p. 121 Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Working Group - August 2010 - SIGNAL - "' SFR - Spatial Frequency Response - ( ISO…
  • p. 122 Federal Agencies Digitization In itiative Still Image Working Group -August 20 10 - NOISE- Engineering - Radiometric Distortion…
R. Gordon First time for the other crew members, okay that's fine.
K. Terauchi I think it was the first time.
F. Fujii Who was the first person who saw it?
K. Terauchi It was me. I saw it in - inside.
F. Fujii What did you notice at first?
K. Terauchi During first time we saw light, I think a navigation light.
R. Gordon Ah ha, but you saw it visually first you didn't pick it up on
radar or anything you just saw some light out there, okay and
that really coinsides with the air traffic statement, you called
and said do you have any traffic in my area
K. Terauchi Yeah, yeah before, before, about six minutes before I saw this
one so ah • • •
R. Gordon
K. Terauchi
R. Gordon
F. Fujii
R. Gordon
K. Terauchi
F. Fujii
R. Gordon
?
R. Gordon
K. Terauchi
& F. Fujii
You were watching him for about five or six minutes before you
called •
Before I contact Anchorage Center
Ah ah, okay
Okay fourth question, what did you see exactly shape, light, and
all, the shape, lighting, etc.
Well if you can just explain these to me cause it looks like
you've done alot of drawing here so it's not necessary for you to
redraw all this stuff
This light was amber and whitish, but, when it came to here it
was only amber • white light. Why don't I understand.
(Japanese) right
First of all it's like amber and whitish color, came closely it
seems like all the output exhaust position of the jets, all these
Challenger
Look like something like after burners ••• okay okay, like each
one of these was an individual exhaust
Yes
Okay
So this light is special like (Japanese) when ah Challenger, yes
like Challenger took off amount of flame going on, we can't see
Challenger by this flame
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