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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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T. Tamefuji Nol Nol P. Beckner . . • would you say there was a multitude of lights? T. Tamefuji Ah' (unintelligible) just I want to describe just ah, light, only light. P. Beckner Okay T. Tamefuji Yeah, so if ah, there was something flying, but ah, I couldn't see at that time. P. Beckner Okay, ah was there, was there clear night? T. Tamefuji P. Beckner T. Tamefuji P. Beckner T. Tamefuji P. Beckner T. Tamefuji ?. Beckner T. Tamefuji P. Beckner T.Tamefuji P. Beckner T. Tamefuji P. Beckner T. Tamefuji Yes . Okay . clear • And you could distinguish this lights as being different from the star . . ?.. NNNooo . . . • from the stars? Different is fine. Okay (unintelligible) Alright ah um. How was it first detected? Was it ~ someone saw it visually, or did you see it on radar? Who, well, how was it first found? What's found, humm? Er, first sighted? Ah, as you know, all the crew ah Right . . . must watch outside? Right So ah, I must watch instrument and ah, outside so, and ah, as normal flight so r· have traffic inside, also Captain traffic, inside, but ah, I'm not sure but a engineer landing calculate so he was just sit down back desk calculate ••• P. Beckner (unintelligible) T. Tamefuji departing direction 3 -
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