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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. 21 …Terauchi Hum uh, ah distances is ah, ah, not this, this one ah, 500, ah be…
  • p. 54 …Tamefuji ••• So as I thought, ah, very same similiar altitude and Captain said, ah, hum, I…
  • p. 56 …Tamefuji ••• and ah, I remember, red or orange, hum, and a white landing light, just like…
  • p. 58 …Tamefuji Hum P. Beckner • or was it dusk? Or was the sun still up er, how…
  • p. 59 …but ah, at first we have in flight . . . ? Hum huh. T. Tamefuji . at ATC, air traffic…
  • p. 61 …Tamefuji hum.mm, and ah, I have ah, monitoring, monitor so inside and outside • • • P. Beckner…
  • p. 62 …Tamefuji Mmmm hum P. Beckner Did ·you happen to see the object while in the 360…
  • p. 63 …Tamefuji so ah, we, ah, I couldn't see well, but some hum, hum this - this…
  • p. 68 …Tamefuji Hum • P. Beckner About how long after you first saw this did you go' b…
  • p. 69 …Tamefuji Um hum P. Beckner I understand somewhere in the flight you guys also descended from…
  • p. 70 …Beckner Hum huh T. Tamefuji P. Beckner • • • and ah, I can't say. Okay. Okay ah…
  • p. 71 …Tamefuji Hum, hum P. Beckner This was in the newspaper here in Anchorage, for example. And…
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P. Beckner Right
T. Tamefuji ••• so maybe he couldn't see at that time, but the Captain and
me (unintelligible) have ah, had traffic inside •••
P. Beckner Visually saw • • •
T. Tamefuji Yes
P. Beckner Okay
T. Tamefuji (unintelligible) I saw there was two small aircraft.
P. Beckner Okay
T. Tamefuji And two small aircraft(unintelligible)
P. Beckner niat's what you saw?
T. Tamefuji Yes
P. Beckner Okay
T. Tamefuji And ah, and ah, I ask Captain ah, we should ask ATC so ah, I Air
Traffic •••
P. Beckner Okay
T. Tamefuji ••• So as I thought, ah, very same similiar altitude and
Captain said, ah, hum, I don't remember exactly but ah, ah, he
said ~ah, but a little bit high or same level, but I though
little bit lower, you can know •••
P. Beckner Right
T. Tamefuji ••• it is very difficult to (unintelligible) head-on
traffic •••
P. Beckner Right
T. Tamefuj1 • . • so ah . . .
P. Beckner It was actually at your twelve o'clock . . .
T. Tamefuji No
P. Beckner • . • then .
T. Tamefuji Slightly •
P. Beckner • • • or slightly • . •
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