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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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“Gordon”20 pages

  • p. 17 RECORD OF INTERVIEW WITH JAL CAPTAIN Richard Gordon, Manager, FSD0-63 Kenju Terauchi, Captain, JAL Frank…
  • p. 18 …2 am R. Gordon When last month R. Gordon K. Terauchi R. Gordon F . Fujii Interruption…
  • p. 19 …Gordon K. Terauchi R. Gordon F. Fujii R. Gordon K. Terauchi F. Fujii R. Gordon ? R…
  • p. 20 R. Gordon Okay, yes K. Terauchi But this one is nozzle direction (Japanese)(garbled) we couldn…
  • p. 21 …R. Gordon Well they're alot, much larger. K. Terauchi Yes, much .larger . R. Gordon So…
  • p. 22 …eight miles ••• R. Gordon Okay K. Terauchi And, 60 degrees left ••• R. Gordon Okay K. Terauchi…
  • p. 23 R. Gordon Digital color? K. Terauchi Yes colored, digital R. Gordon Okay, fine, yeah, that's…
  • p. 24 …when ah • • • R. Gordon K. Terauchi R. Gordon K. Terauchi R. Gordon See, it just says…
  • p. 25 …Gordon Oh yeah uh hu, okay sure F. Fujii It was like two R. Gordon Okay…
  • p. 26 …photo. R. Gordon Okay, okay F. Fujii So the (unintelligible) was dark. R. Gordon Okay, that…
  • p. 27 …seven R. Gordon Okay K. Terauchi So ah, size is ah, carrier R. Gordon Ah uh…
  • p. 28 …Oh yes . R. Gordon Like this . K. Terauchi Yeah, yeah, yeah R. Gordon Okay K. Terauchi…
  • p. 29 …change. R. Gordon They didn't change, huh? K. Terauchi Steady, steady. R. Gordon Okay, the…
  • p. 30 …on light. R. Gordon Ah uh, I understand. K. Terauchi (Japanese) R. Gordon So the moon…
  • p. 31 …air. R. Gordon You got no turbulence? K. Terauchi No turbulence. R. Gordon So it's…
  • p. 32 …F. Fujii R. Gordon F. Fujii R. Gordon F. Fujii R. Gordon About 0.1 • • • Just…
  • p. 33 …R. Gordon Yeah K. Terauchi This one, this one, are the same. R. Gordon Same K…
  • p. 34 R. Gordon I get a copy of that Frank? Could we take a picture of that…
  • p. 35 …Gordon s. Mimoto R. Gordon s. Mi.mo to K. Terauchi s. Mimoto R. Gordon K…
  • p. 104 …Captain Terauchi, 1/2/87, by Richard Gordon, manager -of flight standards district office in Anchorage…
K. Terauchi A no, seven, seven or eight miles.
R. Gordon Okay seven or eight miles, that's what they were saying on the
radar.
K. Terauchi Yeah, this later, so we saw about seven or eight miles •••
R. Gordon Okay
K. Terauchi And, 60 degrees left •••
R. Gordon Okay
K. Terauchi So out in here small ship is disappear.
R. Gordon Okay, I understand, now lets (unintelligible) what else, see if I
forget anything, visual was a first, what, you showed me exactly
what you saw. Visually sighting, you saw it first uh?
K. Terauchi First
R. Gordon Okay
F. Fujii And (unintelligible) probably how long had you contacted the
target.
R. Gordon No that's what we were saying, five to six minutes before you
called ATC.
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K. Terauchi Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right.
R. Gordon Okay, did the other crew have trouble sighting the object?
F. Fujii Did the rest of the crew see the lights?
K. Terauchi (More Japanese) So I tried to fix it, but I ah, failed.
Laughter
K. Terauchi Just, shutter was open, did not close, so •••
F. Fujii Yes every crew has seen it.
R. Gordon Okay all the crew members they did see it. Okay. Laughter •••
Yeah that's what I would do (more laughter)
F. Fujii What type of onboard radar?
R. Gordon Yeah , what type of radar was onboard, that ah ?
K. Terauchi I t wa s the kind, ditigal, but I don not know.
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