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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. 3 …Statements of air traffic controllers at Anchorage Center. 11. Investigator statement, Form 1600-32, Jarr.e…
  • p. 4 …Steucke said FAA is satisfied that the safety of the air traffic control sy s tem…
  • p. 5 …Controller positicn, Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center Dl5 = Controller positicn, Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control…
  • p. 41 …air, and the air current was steady and conditions were quite pleasant. Perhaps the controllers were…
  • p. 43 …concerning JAL Flight 1628 sighting of unidentified air traffic, Nov. 17, 1986. Written by Capt. Kenju…
  • p. 66 …Mimoto Oh , maybe Air Traffic Control did not understand my English, so P. Beckner No s…
  • p. 80 PERSONNEL STATEMENT FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center January 6, 1987 The following…
  • p. 81 .· "' PERSONNEL STATEMENT FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center ,,,,----...... ' ( i (", " ~ i The following is…
  • p. 82 PERSONNEL STATEMENT FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center January 9, 1986 The following…
  • p. 83 PERSONNEL STATEMENT FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center January 7, 1987 The following…
  • p. 84 PERSONNEL STATEMENT FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINSTRATION Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center January 9, 1987 The following…
  • p. 85 PERSONNEL STATEMENT FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center January 9, 1987 The following…
  • p. 86 PERSONNEL STATEMENT FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center January 7, 1987 The following…
  • p. 87 PERSONNEL STATEMENT FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center January 9, 1987 The following…
  • p. 100 …FAA Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center, the sighting of unidentified air traffic on their onboard…
  • p. 101 …not interested in reports that do not involve aircraft or the air traffic control system." I
  • p. 105 …1 page (map) Personnel statements. (Statements by seven air traffic control specialists at Anchorage Center.) (8…
  • p. 106 …7) Cassette tape of communications between Air Traffic Control and JAL Flight 1628. 1 hour 30…
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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