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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…
P. Beckner Okay, darker, okay
T. Tamefuji . . • and ah, I flight engineer calculator (unintelligible) so he
had ah •••
P. Beckner So he had a spot on his table?
T. Tamefuji Yes
P. Beckner By the engineer table?
T. Tamefuji Yes, I - when I saw, but ah, cockpit was ah, dark.
P. Beckner Okay. Ah, what size would you estimate this - this object to be?
T. Tamefuji Hummm, it is hard to say, but - ummm, I thought it was ah, ah, I
thought it was larger than ah, aircraft.
s. Mimoto What kinds of aircrafts?
T. Tamefuji
s. Mimoto
P. Beckner
T. Tamefuji
.
P. Beckner
T. Tamefuji
P. Beckner
An originally oncoming aircraft . . .
It feels like it's larger than normal airplane. Oncoming
airplane • • •
Okay. Okay.
the compass •
tb • • •
Ah, did you notice any magnetic disturbances, ah,
. .
• swing or anything • . .
. . • but ah, um, I think you have ATC tape of that time?
Rigbt
T. Tamefuji And controllers tape, ah, said that several times you're
garbling • • •
P. Beckner No • • •
T. Tamefuji ••• but ah, my English is so hee ••• how should I said that
reasoning ••• I thought perhaps the air traffic controller did
not understand my English, so, he said 'garbling'.
s. Mimoto Oh , maybe Air Traffic Control did not understand my English,
so
P. Beckner No
s. Mimoto • he was pol i te and said 'garbling'
P. Beckner • • • sai d (unintelligible) gover nment garble, okay.
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