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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 5 - flight 1628 0242: 24 RCXX:: 0242 : 29 Dl5 0244:13 Rl5 0244 : 17 JL1628 0244 : 39 R15 0244:41 UA69 0244:43 R15 0245:04 UA69 0245:49 R15 0246 : 06 UA69 0246:59 Rl5 0247 : 06 JL1628 0247:09 Rl5 0248:31 R15 0248 : 34 JL1628 0248 : 52 Rl5 It looks like he, he-ah-offset left, and then possibly fell back in-trail. However, I can't see him DCM, I can't pick him out. Okay thank you very much S-R. Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy. Do you still have the traffic? Ah-affinnative. Ah-nine o'clock, ah, ah. United sixty nine, Ancoorage request. Ah, go ahead, United sixty nine heavy. United sixty nine heavy. Sir, I 've got a Japan Air seven forty seven presently in your eleven o'clcx::k position and one hundred and one, correction, one, one, zero miles, and he has traffic (unintelligible) I'll keep you advised, ah-when you're closer to him I want you to see if you see anything with him. Okay fine, ah-we' 11 look for ya. United sixty nine heavy. In your eleven o'clock position, one, zero, zero miles, southbound, is a Japan Air, seven forty seven. He is at flight level three one zero. Says he has traffic at his nine o'clock position same altitude. We'll be looking, that's ah-ah, can't see anything yet. Japan Air sixteen twenty eight; roger. I'm gonna have a United aircraft get close to you and take a look, ah-to see if he can identify your traffic. Thank you. United sixty nine heavy, turn ten degrees left, radar vectors, ah-to see traffic. Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy. Say the position of your traffic. Ah-IXM, ah-ah-rroving to ah-around ten mile, IXM-ah-ah- position-ah-seven, ah-eight o'clock, ten mile. Japan Air sixteen seventy eight heavy; roger. UA69 = United Airlines flight #69
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