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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 CONTENTS March 5, 1987 Selected Haterial Relative to the FAA Investi gation of Japan Air Lines…
p. 4 …FAA's Regional Public Affairs Officer Paul Steucke pointed out that FAA normally does not investigate…
p. 5 AAL-5, FAA February 4, 1987 SELEX:TED PORI'IONS OF TRANSCRIPI'IOO ~ THE INCIDENI' INVOLVING…
p. 6 …Are you (Fairbanks FAA tower) pickin up a primary target right with that aircraft? Ah, ro…
p. 7 …Approach center (Fairbanks FAA tower) on the sixty one line. Approach. Look at your radar. We…
p. 12 Paul Steucke FAA Public Affairs 701 C Street, Box 14 Anch. AK 99513 ~·1 arch 5…
p. 13 …MILE-- SECONDARY RADAR RETURN (Beacon) (Transponder) --11 FAA RADAR SAME AIRCRAFT RETURN (Skin- Surface) --v'-RADAR…
p. 16 Paul Steucke FAA, Public Affairs Officer Alaskan Region 701 C Street, Box 14 Anchorage, Alaska 995…
p. 17 …Gordon, FSD0-63, and Japanese Interpertor Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Airways Facilities, interviewed JAL Captain Kenju Terauchi…
p. 38 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received by FAA 1…
p. 39 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received by FAA 1…
p. 40 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received by FAA 1…
p. 41 …Received by FAA 1/2/87
p. 42 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received ~y FAA 1…
p. 43 …Received by FAA 1/2/87
p. 44 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received by FAA 1…
p. 45 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Milnoto, FAA Alaskan Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received ~y FAA 1…
p. 46 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mi.mote, FAA Alaskan Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received by FAA…
p. 47 …Received by FAA 1/2/87 ---
p. 48 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received 'by !AA 1…
p. 49 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received 'by YAA 1…
p. 50 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received by FAA 1…
p. 51 …Beckner, AAL-207, and Japanese Interpertor Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Airways Facilities, interviewed JAL First Officer Takanori…
p. 72 …Tamefuji Ah, I read the FAA news hummm, ah, humm, I found military radar picked up…
p. 74 ... A JAL flight engineer, Yoshie Tsukuba, was interviewed by Pete Beckner of FAA on January 15…
p. 78 …When I was interviewed here at the first time by FAA personnel, I was not sure…
p. 88 …holding the data and he said yes. FAA Form 1600°32°112-111 AT ~ra_9e…
p. 89 …INTERVIE:WE D/REVI EWE:D - - - - - __ , FAA Form 1600·32° l cz.11, (pt' - JtJ_..,. ~~h…
p. 94 …Mickle, FAA S/A - --- - - - - - - - - - - - - - , FAA Form 160:0-32-112.n) FILE NO. - - - - __ _,,_ - -· FOR OFFICIAL USE…
p. 95 …AVIATION ADMINISTRATION All'I Tl'IANS,.Ol'ITATION 8ECURITY Captain TEPAIX:lil stated that FAA ATC…
p. 100 Paul Steucke, FAA Alaskan Region 701 C St . Box 14 Anc h. AK 99513 March 5…
p. 101 …It was noted at the FAA interview of the flight crew, which was conducted when they…
p. 102 …have been produced or obtained by the FAA in this investigation. They are listed on the…
p. 103 …00 . ) TOTAL AMOUNT ENCLOSED: $. ___________ • FAA WILL PAY COST OF DELIVERY SERVICE BY REGULAR FIRST CLASS U…
p. 104 …0 $1.10 6 • FAA Form 3112, Inspection and Surveillance Record; notes by Inspector Jack Wright…
p. 105 …Mimoto of FAA Alaskan Region. Enilish translation of item #6. (13 pages) Transcript of Interview with…
p. 106 …Selected portions of voice transcriptions, pilot of JAL 1628 and FAA controllers, in chronological order; as…
p. 107 …Alert Report from Director of FAA Alaskan Region to FAA Administrator, 12/31/86. Record of…

MEETING THE FUTURE
.. Page 5 ..
We took a flight course Southeast of Greenland direct to
Chule(ap?) where a U.S. military base is by crossing the great
icy highland midwest of Greenland.
The flight above Greenland, under a nearly full moon which
was raising on the right front side of our aircraft helped
visibility for the night flight. The flight was smooth despite
the unstable air current that shook the plane for about two
hours, but was still a rather atressless flight as compared to a
passenger flight.
We aimed towards Single Point, on the north coast of Canada,
by passing through the Canadian north polar regions and down
southwest along an Arctic flight course. It was 4:25 p.m. Alaska
time when we reported our location to Edmonton Center from above
Single Point, Canada (68 degrees 55 minutes the North Latitude,
137 degrees 15 minutes West Longitude); It had become pitch-
.sllJ:k perhaps because the moon was directly behind us near the
horizon. We received an order from Edmonton Center that we should
contact the
[Personal statement concerning JAL Flight 1628 sighting of
unidentified air traffic, Nov. 17, 1986. Written by Capt.
Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan
Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received by FAA 1/2/87]

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Japan Air Lines Flight 1628: The Alaska Mothership 1986

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