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This set of Federal Aviation Administration Alaskan Region news releases and notes, dated December 1986 to March 1987, covers the Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 sighting of November 17, 1986. It includes interview notes with Captain Kenjyu Terauchi's crew. The FAA said it could not confirm the event and attributed the second radar target to a split radar return from the 747. The releases also describe an Alaska Airlines weather radar sighting and Terauchi's January 1987 lights, which were attributed to ice crystals.

  • p. 2 …Airport, with the flight crew of Japan Air Lines f Ii ght 1628, enroute from Europe…
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
ALASKAN REGION
701 C Street, Anchorage, Alaska, 99513
DECEMBER 30, 1986
CONTACT: PAUL STEUCKE, FAA, PUBLIC A FF AI RS, ALASKA
( 9 0 7) 2 7 1 - 5.2 9 6
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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