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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. 23 …it shows red ••• K. Terauchi Yes, yes R. Gordon So it's light green, maybe the…
  • p. 45 …We eaid that we could see a light in the 10 o'clock position at the…
  • p. 46 …were lights increasing from the U.S. Military Eielson Air Force Base and Fairbanks. The lights…
  • p. 56 …Tamefuji ••• and ah, I remember, red or orange, hum, and a white landing light, just like…
  • p. 58 …dark, dark red. P. Beckner Dark red, okay. r. Tamefuji But almost dark I must say…
  • p. 76 …The lights in front of us were clusters of lights like this. I think they were…
  • p. 88 …The lights were yellow, amber, and green, rut no red. 'ttle lights were in tw:::> seperate…
  • p. 94 …amber and green lights, and a rotating beacxm, but oo red lights. The captain said there…
  • p. 116 …red, green, and blue light are combined to fonn white light. This is the approach conm1only…
  • p. 121 …less) optical axis that remains de!M!red pixels per units: ( unit less) appropriately chosen In…
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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