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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.
“Fairbanks”17 pages
- p. 4 …U.S.-Canadian border
to south of Fairbanks . On Jan. 11, 1987, Captain Terauchi also reported…
- p. 6 …Are you (Fairbanks FAA tower) pickin up a primary target
right with that aircraft?
Ah, ro…
- p. 7 …32 Dl5
Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy, understand your traffic
is over Fairbanks at this…
- p. 29 …Terauchi We can see ah Fairbanks and Eilsen Air Base.
R. Gordon Okay, yes, good, that…
- p. 46 …Military Eielson Air Force
Base and Fairbanks. The lights were still following us at
exactly the…
- p. 48 …About the same time a United Airline passenger aircraft
which left Anchorage to Fairbanks flew into…
- p. 49 …About the same time a United Airline passenger aircraft
which left Anchorage to Fairbanks flew into…
- p. 62 …Beckner Okay, okay, um somewhere down, I guess by Fairbanks
guys, the Captain or yourself requested…
- p. 80 …Japan Airlines Flight
1628 (JL1628) North of Fairbanks, Alaska on November 18, 1986 at 0218 UTC…
- p. 82 …Japan Airlines Flight
1628 (JL1628) north of Fairbanks, Alaska on November 18, 1986 at 0218 UTC…
- p. 83 …incident involving aircraft JL 1628
north of Fairbanks on November 18, 1986 at 0218 UTC.
My…
- p. 84 …Japan Airlines
Flight 1628 (JL1628) North of Fairbanks, Alaska on November 18, 1986 at 0218
UTC…
- p. 85 …Japan Airlines Flight
1628 (JL1628) north of Fairbanks, Alaska on November 18, 1986 at 0218 UTC…
- p. 86 …concerning the incident to JL1628 North of
Fairbanks , Alaska, on November 18, 1986 at approximately 0218…
- p. 87 …the incident to aircraft JL1628 north of
Fairbanks, Alaska, on November 18, 1986 at 0218 GMT…
- p. 88 …Near Fairbanks, the crew executed a 360° turn and the
lights stayed with them off of…
- p. 94 …degree tum while in the vacinity of Fairbanks, Alaska,
which he had a visual on. Captain…
PERSONNEL STATEMENT
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center
January 9, 1987
The following is a report concerning the incident to aircraft JL1628 north of
Fairbanks, Alaska, on November 18, 1986 at 0218 GMT.
My name is Manfred F. Keller (FK). I am employed as an Automations
Specialist by the Federal Aviation Administration at the Anchorage Air Route
Traffic Control Center, Anchorage, Alaska.
I interpreted the recorded data (radar) reference JL1628. I searched the
specific areas where the pilot reportedly had traffic and could not find any
indications of other target information.
J.~r~)f ~Air Traffic Control Specialist
Anchorage ARTCC
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