Simulated radar data, colour photos

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This FAA release, obtained through The Black Vault, collects material on the radar data from Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 over Alaska on November 17, 1986. It includes a March 5, 1987 explanation by FAA public affairs officer Paul Steucke, a February 1987 Airway Facilities memo, and Dennis Simantel's analysis attributing the returns to uncorrelated primary and beacon targets, considered normal. It also contains regenerated radar image photos and a Philadelphia Inquirer magazine article on the sighting and the FAA's inconclusive review.

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p. 3 Paul Steucke FAA Public Affairs 701 C Street, Box 14 Anch. AK 99513 March 5 , 1987…
p. 4 …MILE-- --,/'- SECONDARY RADAR RETURN (Beacon) (Transponder) --11 FAA RADAR Drawing by Paul Steucke March 5 , 1987…
p. 9 …It was .a nig~tmare, until some FAA e~ploy~ ~tli teenagers started coming up to…
p. 10 ~-lrom~17 S0 NOW YOU SEE WHAT the captain and the FAA had gotten themselves into…
p. 11 …1821 a It appeared on .the FAA's radar scope. At: first, the FAA Aid the…
p. 12 …Nine o'clock. · -ing- Dave Smith, manager of the FAA's those fenatjous lights were ~t…
p. 13 …I don't speak Japanese." But his FAA contacts enabled him to "read and make erlensive…
p. 14 …Their mission wa5 to takeafinalgoodlookattheradar returns, with tbe help of the staff at the FAA Technical…
p. 15 …Steucke was the only FAA per- son available to answer questions. He had called up the…

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Japan Air Lines Flight 1628: The Alaska Mothership 1986

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