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FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
ALASKAN REGION
701 C Street, Anchorage, Alaska, 99513
DECEMBER 30, 1986
CONTACT: PAUL STEUCKE, FAA, PUBLIC A FF AI RS, ALASKA
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The fol lowing information constructed from personal handwritten
notes, has been provided to Paul Steucke, FAA Public Affairs
Officer, Alaskan Region, by Jim Derry, Manager, FAA Security
Division, Alaskan Region, and constitutes the information
obtained in personal interviews held the evening of Novmber 17,
1986, at Anchorage Internati anal Airport, with the flight crew of
Japan Air Lines f Ii ght 1628, enroute from Europe and I eel and/ to
Toyko, vi a Anchorage, Alaska.
A t t end i n g t he i n t er v i e w we r e : J i m D·e r r y , Ma n a g er , Sec u r i t y
Di vision, FAA: Ron Mickle, Investigator, FAA Security: Jack
IN r i g ht , I n vest i g at or , FA A F 1 i g ht St and a r d s Di s t ·r i ct 0 f f i c e, t he
Manager of the JAL Anchor age Off i ce: and the f I i ght er ew -
Captain Kenjyu Terauchi .; First Officer Takonori Tamefuj i; and
Flight Engineer Yoshi o Tsukuda.
The interviews were in response to the sighting of unknown and
uni denti fi ed air traffic which accompanied the flight from the
Al a$ka Canadian border on the north along a flight pl an which
flows approximate! y from Ft. Yukon, Alaska, to Fairbanks, to
Anchorage.
NOTES:
* FL! GHT NUMBER JAL 1628, Dep. Reykjavik, I eel and.
* ADI Z, HL529 ... J529 ••. (Airway numbers) Contact at POTAT()
* Visual contact.. can see FA!, over FAI did 360 degrees.
* S. MJ-125, Route
cont i nued .•.
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