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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. 21 …Terauchi Hum uh, ah distances is ah, ah, not this, this one ah, 500, ah be…
  • p. 54 …Tamefuji ••• So as I thought, ah, very same similiar altitude and Captain said, ah, hum, I…
  • p. 56 …Tamefuji ••• and ah, I remember, red or orange, hum, and a white landing light, just like…
  • p. 58 …Tamefuji Hum P. Beckner • or was it dusk? Or was the sun still up er, how…
  • p. 59 …but ah, at first we have in flight . . . ? Hum huh. T. Tamefuji . at ATC, air traffic…
  • p. 61 …Tamefuji hum.mm, and ah, I have ah, monitoring, monitor so inside and outside • • • P. Beckner…
  • p. 62 …Tamefuji Mmmm hum P. Beckner Did ·you happen to see the object while in the 360…
  • p. 63 …Tamefuji so ah, we, ah, I couldn't see well, but some hum, hum this - this…
  • p. 68 …Tamefuji Hum • P. Beckner About how long after you first saw this did you go' b…
  • p. 69 …Tamefuji Um hum P. Beckner I understand somewhere in the flight you guys also descended from…
  • p. 70 …Beckner Hum huh T. Tamefuji P. Beckner • • • and ah, I can't say. Okay. Okay ah…
  • p. 71 …Tamefuji Hum, hum P. Beckner This was in the newspaper here in Anchorage, for example. And…
PERSONNEL STATEMENT
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center
January 6, 1987
The following is a report concerning the incident to Japan Airlines Flight
1628 (JL1628) North of Fairbanks, Alaska on November 18, 1986 at 0218 UTC.
My name is Carl E. Henley (HC). I am employed as an Air Traffic Control
Specialist by the Federal Aviation Administration at the Anchorage Air
Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC), Anchorage, Alaska.
During the period of 2030 UTC, November 18, 1986, to 0430 UTC, November
18, 1986 I was on duty in the Anchorage ARTCC. I was working the R/Dl5
position from 0156 UTC, November 18, 1986 to 0230 UTC, and the Rl5
position from 0230 UTC, November 18, 1986 to 0258 UTC, November 18, 1986.
I am making this statement to clarify certain points in my original
statement dated November 19, 1986.
Ref paragraph 4:
I stated in paragraph four that several times I had several primary
returns where JL1~28 reported traffic; in actuality I observed three types
of targets. I saw tentative radar targets which showed up as a (-)
symbols~ I saw (+) symbols that indicate radar only tracks. I also saw
non run lenth targets which show up as a (.) symbols.
Additionally, I stated the traffic stayed with JL1628 through turns and
descent, this information was what I received from JL 1628.
Air Traffic Control
Anchorage ARTCC

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