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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…
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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