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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. 32 …Gordon About 0.1 • • • Just right on the horizon, the sun was setting? Yeah, yes. So…
  • p. 38 …The north of Alaska in mid-November you cannot even see the sun; the darkness continues…
  • p. 46 …Yukon diagonally below us at the ri1ht, the sun was setting down in the Southwest, painting…
  • p. 58 …Beckner • or was it dusk? Or was the sun still up er, how would you describe…
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