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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…

~poge s~
Anchorage Center when we reach above Pottat(sp?) where Alaska
Territorial Air begins. Pottat locates approximately 480 miles,
approximately 890 kilometers, North-northeast of Anchorage, 67
degrees 56 minutes North Latitude, 141 degrees West Longitude.
We began the communication with the Anchorage Center about
5:05 p.m. The flight course we had acknowledged was Jet 529,
direct to Ft. Yukon and Jet 125 via Nenana, Talkeetna, Chaiger
(sp?), and to Anchorage. The Anchorage Center ordered us to fly
direct to Talkeetna, provided us transponder codes and placed us
on a radar scope at the same time. The strange phenomenon
happened immediately.after we began left rotation, following the
order of taking the direct flight courae.
There was an unidentifiable light ahead of the rotation. We
set the course toward Talkeetna and began level flight. Then we
saw lights that looked like aircraft lights, 30 degrees left
front, 2,00p feet (600 meters) below us, moving exactly in the
same direction and with the same speed as we were. We were at
the altitude of 35,000 feet (10,600 . meters), flying speed was
900 kilometer per hour to 910 kilometer per hour.
[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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