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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.
“formation”6 pages
P. Beckner Okay T. Tamefuji But so it was so luminous, I don't mean luminous ah, it was too much forever. P. Beckner Right, okay. How 'bout the colors of the lights? Is that also • T. Tamefuji Humm, might Captain, maybe for different thing and Mr. Fukuda, maybe different thing, but ah, ah I say it was the aircraft so I thought but actually I think • P. Beckner Okay T. Tamefuji . . . I think ah, salmon, just like Christmas assorted P. Beckner Okay, okay assorted. T. Tamefuji ••• and ah, I remember, red or orange, hum, and a white landing light, just like landing light. And weak green, ah, blinking ••• S. Mimoto Flashing • . . P. Beckne Flashing • . . s. Mimoto ••• blinking, blinking P.e Beckner Blinking s. Mimoto (~nintelligible) yes P. Beckner Okay T. Tamefuji How should I say - looks just like this, (hand-signs were made by Mr. Tamefuji) moving like in one • s. Himoto Oh, swinging P. Beckner Swinging? T. Tamefuji (Japanese) P. Beckner Movement T. Tamefuji Yes, and ah, ah if there was, there are ah, how should I say, very good formation flight • • • P. Beckner· Close formation flight? T. Tamefuji Yes close. 6
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