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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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page 3 - flight 1628 0234: 52 Rl5 0234: 56 JL1628 0235 :02 Rl5 0235 : 24 Dl5 0235 : 27 FBKS 0235 :30 Dl5 0235 : 39 Dl5 0235 : 44 FBKS 0236:12 JL1628 0236 : 18 Rl5 0236 : 24 JL1628 0236 : 37 Rl5 0236 : 47 JL1628 0237 : 23 Rcx:c 0237 : 25 Dl5 0237 : 29 Dl5 0237 : 30 ROCC 0237 : 32 Dl5 Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy, understand your traffic is over Fairbanks at this time. Affinnative - - ah request heading ~ one zero. Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy, roger. Deviations approved as necessary for traffic. Approach center (Fairbanks FAA tower) on the sixty one line. Approach. Look at your radar. We got a Japan Air one six~ eight, ah-he's deviating. He's about ah-five miles north of Fairbanks V-0-R squawking one five five zero. Do you have ar-ry traffic with him? He sees traffic, he was deviating. Ah - ya, no we don't. I don't see anything there aside fran his, ah-his target. Ah-Anchorage Center; Japan Air one six tw::> eight, request direct ah-Talkeetna. Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy, cleared direct Talkeetna, and in-ah-advise me of your position of your traffic? Ah, same po, same position. Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy, ah-sir I'm gonna request you to make a right tum, three six zero degrees, three hundred and sixty degree tum, and advise me what your traffic Cbes then. Right tum, three sixty. Okay. We have, no, we have confirmed, we have IX> military aircraft ~rking up there. Okay thank you very much. You have nJ traffic at all? That's correct, Cbes he (JAL-1628) still have sanebody visual? He says he Cbes. FBKS = Fairbanks Airport FAA Approach Qxlt:rol (Tower) .- --
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