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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.

  • p. 20 …Gordon Being okay these things here, maybe being each one of these things here, so these…
  • p. 21 …This is the small one so it looked like this, but the bigger one, I could…
  • p. 28 …you estimate the size of the small ships to be? K. Terauchi Ah ••• (unintelligible), up here…
  • p. 30 …Also the other is, that air turbulance be created. So they did not want to leave…
  • p. 38 …There was no danger but it created many questions that a human being cannot answer. Page…
  • p. 43 …However, the center area of the ship where below an engine might be was invisible. The…
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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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