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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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  • p. 4 …U.S.-Canadian border to south of Fairbanks . On Jan. 11, 1987, Captain Terauchi also reported…
  • p. 6 …Are you (Fairbanks FAA tower) pickin up a primary target right with that aircraft? Ah, ro…
  • p. 7 …32 Dl5 Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy, understand your traffic is over Fairbanks at this…
  • p. 29 …Terauchi We can see ah Fairbanks and Eilsen Air Base. R. Gordon Okay, yes, good, that…
  • p. 46 …Military Eielson Air Force Base and Fairbanks. The lights were still following us at exactly the…
  • p. 48 …About the same time a United Airline passenger aircraft which left Anchorage to Fairbanks flew into…
  • p. 49 …About the same time a United Airline passenger aircraft which left Anchorage to Fairbanks flew into…
  • p. 62 …Beckner Okay, okay, um somewhere down, I guess by Fairbanks guys, the Captain or yourself requested…
  • p. 80 …Japan Airlines Flight 1628 (JL1628) North of Fairbanks, Alaska on November 18, 1986 at 0218 UTC…
  • p. 82 …Japan Airlines Flight 1628 (JL1628) north of Fairbanks, Alaska on November 18, 1986 at 0218 UTC…
  • p. 83 …incident involving aircraft JL 1628 north of Fairbanks on November 18, 1986 at 0218 UTC. My…
  • p. 84 …Japan Airlines Flight 1628 (JL1628) North of Fairbanks, Alaska on November 18, 1986 at 0218 UTC…
  • p. 85 …Japan Airlines Flight 1628 (JL1628) north of Fairbanks, Alaska on November 18, 1986 at 0218 UTC…
  • p. 86 …concerning the incident to JL1628 North of Fairbanks , Alaska, on November 18, 1986 at approximately 0218…
  • p. 87 …the incident to aircraft JL1628 north of Fairbanks, Alaska, on November 18, 1986 at 0218 GMT…
  • p. 88 …Near Fairbanks, the crew executed a 360° turn and the lights stayed with them off of…
  • p. 94 …degree tum while in the vacinity of Fairbanks, Alaska, which he had a visual on. Captain…
F. Fujii (Japanese) No ah magnetic
K. Terauchi No ah no •
R. Gordon No gages, or the instruments or the RMI on everything stayed
okay, no magnetic disturbances? Okay. Ah, did the intensity of
the objects lights change? I think he just explained that didn't
he on that ah • • •
S. Mimoto (unintelligible) you mean intensity of light?
R. Gordon No on this object here, did the, did the intensity of these
lights change, and I think he just explained that, ah
F. Fujii You mean by distance, right?
R. Gordon No the intensity, the brightness of the, ah . . .
s. Mi mo to (unintelligible)
F. Fujii Did the intensity of lights change?
K. Terauchi No, it did not change.
R. Gordon They didn't change, huh?
K. Terauchi Steady, steady.
R. Gordon Okay, the intensity was steady?
K. Terauchi Yes
K. Terauchi Visibility ah, more ~lear, all the way clear, clear sky.
R. Gordon Okay • • •
K. Terauchi Clear sky
R. Gordon How about visibilty? What would you estimate, you know when
you're coming down from up there where we enter over Alaska where
you come off the sea and hit Alaska, you come up a ways and then
you can see Fairbanks out here, no problems seeing Fairbanks?
K. Terauchi When flying over Fort Yukon . . .
R. Gordon Fort Yukon, yeah.
K. Terauchi We can see ah Fairbanks and Eilsen Air Base.
R. Gordon Okay, yes, good, that's real clear, that's that's fine.
Shinbashi It was near full moon wasn't it?
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