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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. 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 Hummm, no . . .
P. Beckner • and all that sort of stuff or •
T. Tamefuji • hummm, it was for night flights seeting.
P. Beckner Right, okay.
T. Tamefuji Bright, it looked bright
P. Beckner Not bright but •••
T. Tamefuji Dim
P. Beckner • dim, okay. Was there? Was there any attempt to - did you
guys turn them down all the ways, or •••
T. Tamefuji Hummmm •••
P. Beckner ••• what you saw outside couldn't have possibly, could have
possible been a reflection or something from inside the cockpit?
T. Tamefuji Hummmm •
P. Beckner I'm just, just asking . . .
T. Tamefuji Yeah, yeah . . . I understand that • Ah' I - I want to say there
is not possibility what you think .
'P. Beckner Okay of reflection • . .
T. Tamefuju ah, no.
P. Beckner Okay. Was the light turned all the way off just to see if it
made any difference, er ••• ?
T. Tamefuji Um •
P. Beckner ••• do you remember if - if you did that, er, the Captain may
have done it?
T. Tamefuji Umm, ah, I was very busy, so, ah, I •••
P. Beckner That's right you were the flying pilot •••
T. Tamefuji Yes, and ah, 150 feet . . .
P. Beckner Yeah
T. Tamefuji ••• and so, but ah, maybe, maybe not good word but, maybe ah,
Captain try down dark • darker • • •
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