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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.
“Gordon”20 pages
R. Gordon Fifteen minutes after you visually contacted it, okay, okay. K. Terauchi Yeah, fifteen minutes • when ah • • • R. Gordon K. Terauchi R. Gordon K. Terauchi R. Gordon See, it just says did you paint anything that's did you see anything else on the radar, weather or anything else • • • No, no, nothing. Just that target Yeah, yes, yes. Okay, okay The only thing we saw on the radar then was that target F. Fujii How about the aircraft, any turbulence? K. Terauchi No, ah, no R. Gordon No, no turbulence, no turbulence at all, okay. Autopilot stayed on all the time. K. Terauchi Yeah • R. Gordon Okay K. Terauchi Working good R. Gordon Good, (laughter) F. Fujii Now how about communications, naviagion, or interferring of any sort ?. . .. K. Terauchi This ah small aircraft near the here, so ah all the way VHF transmit on (unintelligible) with ah some we got a like some kind of ••• like ah, jamming. R. Gordon Some kind of interference? K. Terauchi Interference. R. Gordon On the VHF? K. Terauchi Yes then this one leave for mothership • . . R. Gordon Ah ha K. Terauchi Back to normal(?) R. Gordon Okay, did you say it's like German talking uh? 8 ---
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