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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. 3 …Statements of air traffic controllers at Anchorage Center. 11. Investigator statement, Form 1600-32, Jarr.e…
  • p. 4 …Steucke said FAA is satisfied that the safety of the air traffic control sy s tem…
  • p. 5 …Controller positicn, Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center Dl5 = Controller positicn, Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control…
  • p. 41 …air, and the air current was steady and conditions were quite pleasant. Perhaps the controllers were…
  • p. 43 …concerning JAL Flight 1628 sighting of unidentified air traffic, Nov. 17, 1986. Written by Capt. Kenju…
  • p. 66 …Mimoto Oh , maybe Air Traffic Control did not understand my English, so P. Beckner No s…
  • p. 80 PERSONNEL STATEMENT FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center January 6, 1987 The following…
  • p. 81 .· "' PERSONNEL STATEMENT FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center ,,,,----...... ' ( i (", " ~ i The following is…
  • p. 82 PERSONNEL STATEMENT FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center January 9, 1986 The following…
  • p. 83 PERSONNEL STATEMENT FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center January 7, 1987 The following…
  • p. 84 PERSONNEL STATEMENT FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINSTRATION Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center January 9, 1987 The following…
  • p. 85 PERSONNEL STATEMENT FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center January 9, 1987 The following…
  • p. 86 PERSONNEL STATEMENT FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center January 7, 1987 The following…
  • p. 87 PERSONNEL STATEMENT FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center January 9, 1987 The following…
  • p. 100 …FAA Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center, the sighting of unidentified air traffic on their onboard…
  • p. 101 …not interested in reports that do not involve aircraft or the air traffic control system." I
  • p. 105 …1 page (map) Personnel statements. (Statements by seven air traffic control specialists at Anchorage Center.) (8…
  • p. 106 …7) Cassette tape of communications between Air Traffic Control and JAL Flight 1628. 1 hour 30…
R. Gordon Yeah, I got that out of that other one that there was two and
then it went back to the mothership.
K. Terauchi Yeah
s. Mimoto
R. Gordon
s. Mimoto
R. Gordon
s. Mi.mo to
K. Terauchi
s. Mimoto
R. Gordon
K. Terauchi
R. Gordon
s. Mimoto
R. Gordon
I thought maybe there was more then two.
Oh I see, I'm glad you asked that. There were only two?
Only two.
But one was larger then the other like there was two of 'em were
stuck together, right?
Then both are the same size, possible got (stuck) together later?
Yes, possibly. The one I saw first, it was this lon~. See if
they were stacked together at the beginning, one must have
returned to the mothership soon after the separtation.
This (unintelligible)
Oh you saw that, and then they separated like they were together
and then they came apart.
(Japanese)
Ah uh, okay. Same thing, and make sure that I'm right here, that
ah, ah airplane, first sighting, and say this is over here, then
it would have ••
(unintelligible)
Okay, fine just so we know if someone asks us that question we
can answer. Very good. Well I have a lot better understanding
of what transpired then what we got out of a bunch of people when
we talked, and I want to thank you folks for your time. I really
appreciate it.
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