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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. 3 CONTENTS March 5, 1987 Selected Haterial Relative to the FAA Investi gation of Japan Air Lines…
  • p. 4 …FAA's Regional Public Affairs Officer Paul Steucke pointed out that FAA normally does not investigate…
  • p. 5 AAL-5, FAA February 4, 1987 SELEX:TED PORI'IONS OF TRANSCRIPI'IOO ~ THE INCIDENI' INVOLVING…
  • p. 6 …Are you (Fairbanks FAA tower) pickin up a primary target right with that aircraft? Ah, ro…
  • p. 7 …Approach center (Fairbanks FAA tower) on the sixty one line. Approach. Look at your radar. We…
  • p. 12 Paul Steucke FAA Public Affairs 701 C Street, Box 14 Anch. AK 99513 ~·1 arch 5…
  • p. 13 …MILE-- SECONDARY RADAR RETURN (Beacon) (Transponder) --11 FAA RADAR SAME AIRCRAFT RETURN (Skin- Surface) --v'-RADAR…
  • p. 16 Paul Steucke FAA, Public Affairs Officer Alaskan Region 701 C Street, Box 14 Anchorage, Alaska 995…
  • p. 17 …Gordon, FSD0-63, and Japanese Interpertor Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Airways Facilities, interviewed JAL Captain Kenju Terauchi…
  • p. 38 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received by FAA 1…
  • p. 39 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received by FAA 1…
  • p. 40 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received by FAA 1…
  • p. 41 …Received by FAA 1/2/87
  • p. 42 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received ~y FAA 1…
  • p. 43 …Received by FAA 1/2/87
  • p. 44 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received by FAA 1…
  • p. 45 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Milnoto, FAA Alaskan Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received ~y FAA 1…
  • p. 46 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mi.mote, FAA Alaskan Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received by FAA…
  • p. 47 …Received by FAA 1/2/87 ---
  • p. 48 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received 'by !AA 1…
  • p. 49 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received 'by YAA 1…
  • p. 50 …Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received by FAA 1…
  • p. 51 …Beckner, AAL-207, and Japanese Interpertor Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Airways Facilities, interviewed JAL First Officer Takanori…
  • p. 72 …Tamefuji Ah, I read the FAA news hummm, ah, humm, I found military radar picked up…
  • p. 74 ... A JAL flight engineer, Yoshie Tsukuba, was interviewed by Pete Beckner of FAA on January 15…
  • p. 78 …When I was interviewed here at the first time by FAA personnel, I was not sure…
  • p. 88 …holding the data and he said yes. FAA Form 1600°32°112-111 AT ~ra_9e…
  • p. 89 …INTERVIE:WE D/REVI EWE:D - - - - - __ , FAA Form 1600·32° l cz.11, (pt' - JtJ_..,. ~~h…
  • p. 94 …Mickle, FAA S/A - --- - - - - - - - - - - - - - , FAA Form 160:0-32-112.n) FILE NO. - - - - __ _,,_ - -· FOR OFFICIAL USE…
  • p. 95 …AVIATION ADMINISTRATION All'I Tl'IANS,.Ol'ITATION 8ECURITY Captain TEPAIX:lil stated that FAA ATC…
  • p. 100 Paul Steucke, FAA Alaskan Region 701 C St . Box 14 Anc h. AK 99513 March 5…
  • p. 101 …It was noted at the FAA interview of the flight crew, which was conducted when they…
  • p. 102 …have been produced or obtained by the FAA in this investigation. They are listed on the…
  • p. 103 …00 . ) TOTAL AMOUNT ENCLOSED: $. ___________ • FAA WILL PAY COST OF DELIVERY SERVICE BY REGULAR FIRST CLASS U…
  • p. 104 …0 $1.10 6 • FAA Form 3112, Inspection and Surveillance Record; notes by Inspector Jack Wright…
  • p. 105 …Mimoto of FAA Alaskan Region. Enilish translation of item #6. (13 pages) Transcript of Interview with…
  • p. 106 …Selected portions of voice transcriptions, pilot of JAL 1628 and FAA controllers, in chronological order; as…
  • p. 107 …Alert Report from Director of FAA Alaskan Region to FAA Administrator, 12/31/86. Record of…
T. Tamefuji Yes
P~ Beckner Ckay, the head.:.-Ons were brighter?
T. Tamefuji Er, yes
P. Beckner Okay, um • was there anything else on the radar that you were
able to see, or was that the only target that you had on the
radar?
T. Tamefuji Ch yes, and ah, I think ah, Captain tilt •••
P. Beckner Tilt right
T. Tamefuji ••• and ah, a certain tilt angle could catch the object • . .
P. Beckner Okay, so, so was there anything else showing on the radar •
T. Tamefuji Hummm
P. Beckner (unintelligible)
T. Tamefuji ••• that should be something spot or ground-echo, ah, • • ?
P. Beckner (unintelligible) • • ~ okay
T. Tamefuji . . . ah, I - I have many experience ah, ah, aircraft 1 echo or
radar screen ••• , echo •••
P. Beckner Right
T. Tamefuji ••• yeah, ah, so I could identify that is ••• ah aircraft
echo • • • I have many experiences before in checking oncoming
aircrafts on a radar.
s. Mimoto I experienced often in checking oncoming aircraft on radar
before.
T. Tamefuji Just like ah traffic.
P. Beckner Okay • . .
T. Tamefuji • just the right (unintelligible) . . • talking.
P. Beckner . . • so what you saw was similiar to what you seen before,
you were picking up other traffic?
T. Tamefuji Yes
when
P. Beckner Ckay, okay, um, the lighting conditions, I talked about the
lighting conditions outsid~. How 'bout the lighting conditions
inside the aircraft? Were there cockpit lights on •••
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