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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. 20 …anything over here unless it's spinning rotation. R. Gordon Yeah, okay, yeah, somebody said sometimes…
p. 40 …The strange phenomenon happened immediately.after we began left rotation, following the order of taking the…
p. 94 …yellow, amber and green lights, and a rotating beacxm, but oo red lights. The captain said…

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Japan Air Lines Flight 1628: The Alaska Mothership 1986

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