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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. 18 …saw bright lights, I guess maybe ah 10,000 feet so ah ••• the light continued for…
  • p. 20 …Gordon Maybe that would account for that bright light he saw five years ~go. In otherwords…
  • p. 29 …brightness of the, ah . . . s. Mi mo to (unintelligible) F. Fujii Did the intensity of lights…
  • p. 34 …Mimoto The small one, not the mothership, were there many light? K. Terauchi Oh yes, there…
  • p. 46 …Air Force Base and Fairbanks became clear and bri1ht, two very bright lights appeared suddenly from…
  • p. 47 The extremely bright lights reflected on snow on the side of the mountains and seemed even…
  • p. 65 …Tamefuji Bright, it looked bright P. Beckner Not bright but ••• T. Tamefuji Dim P. Beckner • dim…
  • p. 116 …red, green, and blue light are combined to fonn white light. This is the approach conm1only…
  • p. 117 …Monitor Settings, Light Boxes, and Viewing Booths We assume the assessment of many digital images will…
T. Tamefuji Yeah
P. Beckner
T. Tamefuji
P. Beckner
T. Tamefuji
P. Beckner
T. Tamefuji
P. Beckner
r. Tamefuji
P. Beckner
T. Tamefuji
Okay. Were there any other ah " was there any other aircraft?
Did you see any other aircraft during that particular flight?
No ah, no other ATC ah, I mean ah, um, as •••
Right
• and ah •
You didn't see any other aircraft at all?
In last part of the incident United Air •
Right
ah, from Anchorage.
Hum, huh
. . • And we can ... what's that . ... we could see • • •
P. Beckner You could see (unintelligible)
T. Tamefuji United
P. Beckner Okay you could see United •••
T. Tamefuji (unintelligible)
P. Beckner Okay, did he ... did United when you saw him was he flashing his
lights at you or anything, er just normal nav lights, er •
T. Tamefuji Humm •
P. Beckner do you remember what ••• ?
T. Tamefuji Humm, remember, just she passed my left-hand side •••
P. Beckner Hum huh
T. Tamefuji
P. Beckner
• • • and ah, I can't say.
Okay. Okay ah, did the intensity of these lights change, at
all &
T. Tamefuji Humm •••
P. Beckner ••• or were they pretty much the same intensity for the time
that you saw them?
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