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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. 2 …Sincerely , ~--- ~ \- ~. ~ ' . ) ,c___ ) ~~ Paul Steucke Public Affairs Officer
  • p. 3 …Prepared by FAA Public Affairs Office AAL-5 Alaskan Region 701 C St., Box 14, Anchorage…
  • p. 4 …Office of Public Affairs Alaskan Region 701 C Street. Box 14 Anchorage. Alaska 995 13 (907…
  • p. 5 …Ya, could you (ROC:C) look ah, approximately forty miles south of Fort Yukon, there should…
  • p. 7 …23 Rcx:c 0237 : 25 Dl5 0237 : 29 Dl5 0237 : 30 ROCC 0237 : 32 Dl5 Japan…
  • p. 12 Paul Steucke FAA Public Affairs 701 C Street, Box 14 Anch. AK 99513 ~·1 arch 5…
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  • p. 16 Paul Steucke FAA, Public Affairs Officer Alaskan Region 701 C Street, Box 14 Anchorage, Alaska 995…
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  • p. 38 …The temperature of Kefurabik Airport in November is approximately maximum of 3 degrees C. and the…
  • p. 74 …Be c kner: Why could he not take any pictures? Ts ukuba: We ll, his camera…
  • p. 81 …Also a military C-130 southbound to EDF from EIL advised he had plenty of fuel…
  • p. 85 …gave this information to the Was hington D. C. ROC. Air Traffic Control Specialist Anchorage ARTCC
  • p. 88 OEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FC .. AL AVIATION AONIHIST .. ATIOH cm November 17, I respond.ed to…
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  • p. 96 …OR A IR c RA FT REG Is- t---.r-6-·_R_E_s_u_L…
  • p. 100 Paul Steucke, FAA Alaskan Region 701 C St . Box 14 Anc h. AK 99513 March 5…
  • p. 102 …Al askan R eg i on February 21, 1987 70 1 C S tr ee 1…
  • p. 103 …Ofhce of Public Affus Alaskan Region 701 C Street. Box 14 Anchorage . Alaska 995 13 (907…
  • p. 107 …PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE, AAL-5 701 C STREET, BOX 14 ANCHORAGE, ALASKA 99513 •
  • p. 112 …91 APPENDIX C: RESOURCES SCOPE .......................................................................... 92 List of Tables Textual Documents ... ............. ... .... ........... .... ... .................. .... ..... .. .................... ... ..... .................. ... 37 Oversized Records ......... .... ........ .. ................. .............. ................ ....... .................... ..... ........ .. ... ..... 38 Photographs…
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  • p. 119 …We have c:hosen to categorize It In both by its deterministic and stochastic behaviors. Technical…
  • p. 120 …Delta C, Delta H 0 : Exposure Index, Standard units: gamma ( unitless) Units ( • ) : Delta C, Delta H…
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  • p. 122 …over the field ot view view relative to the average of units: % deviation in SFR :§ ·c…
PERSONNEL STATEMENT
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center
January 9, 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 Erland D. Stephens (AS). 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 0100 UTC, November 18,
1986 , I was on duty in the Anchorage ARTCC.
in Charge position from 0100 UTC, November
18 , 1986.
1986, to 0900 UTC, November 18,
I was working the Area Manager
18, 1986, to 0900 UTC, November
At 0221 UTC I was notified by Joe Rollins, Area B Supervisor, that JL1628,
had reported traffic at his altitude (FL 350), distance one (1) mile with a
white and yellow strobe light. I notified the Alaska Regional Operations
Center (ROC) and the Elmendorf Regional Operational Control Center (ROCC)
about this observed traffic.
At 0233 UTC, after Mr. Rollins advised me that JL1628 had reported the
t raffic to be paralleling his route and that Sector Rl5 radar and ROCC had
i ntermittent radar returns in the area of JL1628s observed traffic I notified
the U. S.. Customs office at Anchorage International Airport about the
possibility of a lost aircraft following JL1628 to Anchorage. At 0245 UTC,
Mr . Rollins advised me that JL1628 had lost visual contact with the unknown
traf fic at 0257 UTC. Mr. Rollins advised me that ROCC had lost radar contact
with the unkno~'Il traffic. At 0423 UTC I gave this information to the
Was hington D. C. ROC.
Air Traffic Control Specialist
Anchorage ARTCC

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