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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 (unintelligible)
P~ Beckner Okay. How ' bout the autopilot, did ... was it· on autopilot?
T~ Tamefuji Yes
p~ Beckner Oka y, did the autopilot kick off?
T. Tamefuji No
P. Bec kner Er ' it stayed on all the time?
T. Tamefu j i No
P. Beckner Oka y. Um, let me just read my notes here and see if I have got
everything I needed to ask you about. You say that you had
suggested to the Captain that you call Center and ask if they had
any targets?
T. Tamefuji Hum •
P. Beckner About how long after you first saw this did you go' b--before
as king about calling Center?
T. Tamefuji Hummm, hum - at fi r st in my mind
P. Bec kner Right , yeah
T. Tamefu j i . . • and conversation so it was not too long but, ah ... hummm, I
can't say exactly but two or three minutes.
P. Bec kner Okay , okay . Um ... Was the Captain the first one to spot the ob ...
the ah, lights?
T. Tamefu j i The who?
P. Beckner First saw the object?
T. Tamefuj1 Hummm , I thi nk ah , at the same time, almost.
P. Beckner Clcay
T. Tamefuji But ah, it i s not impossible to at same time . . .
P. Beckner Right, but . • .
T. Tamefuji (unintelligible )
P. Beckner . . . but ... but communicati ng , ye ah.
T. Tamefuji Humm! um, not so much di fferent between . • .
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