Documents / Document

Package compiled for FAA managers

FAA via National Archives / The Black Vault · 122 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

Open the PDF at page 50 Original source ↗

“at night”7 pages

  • p. 12 …Review of this radar data by FAA experts using identical equipment at the FAA's research…
  • p. 17 …Airways Facilities, interviewed JAL Captain Kenju Terauchi at JAL Operations, Anchorage, Alaska. The interview was conducted…
  • p. 52 …so I couldn't see, but ah at first ah, humm, (unintelligibl•) what can I write…
  • p. 53 …see at that time. P. Beckner Okay, ah was there, was there clear night? T. Tamefuji…
  • p. 58 …Tamefuji But almost dark I must say night • P. Beckner Okay, you could see the stars…
  • p. 76 …We had night illumination at above sideways. I was using a spot light while calculating the…
  • p. 100 …The aircraft was flying at 35 ,000 feet altitude at night, and the weather was clear…
~Page 16~
The strange encounter ended at 75 miles North of Talkeetna, 150
miles (Approximately 276 kilometers) away from Anchorage. It
comprised approximately 60 minutes of flight time. (line 5)
[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]

Cited by

About this file

Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 122 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.