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This FAA Alaskan Region compilation, released through the National Archives and The Black Vault, collects the media inquiries about the November 17, 1986 sighting reported by the crew of Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 over Alaska. It includes call logs, a tally of newspaper articles, a public affairs management report citing 101 inquiries, and press releases. The FAA's March 5, 1987 release concluded that the second radar target was a split return from the JAL Boeing 747 and said no further investigation was planned.
“Japan Air Lines Flight 1628”3 pages
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION ALASKAN REGION 701 C Street, Anchorage, Alaska, 99513 DECEMBER 30, 1986 CONTACT: PAUL STEUCKE, FAA, PUBLIC AFFAIRS, ALASKA ( 907) 271-5296 The fol 1 owing 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 International Airport, with the flight crew of Japan Air Lines f 1 i ght 1628, enroute from Europe and I eel and/ to Toyko, vi a Anchorage, Alaska. Attending the interview were: Jim Derry, Manager, Security Division, FAA: Ron Mickle, Investigator, FAA Security: Jack Wright, Investigator, FAA Flight Standards District Office, the Manager of the JAL Anchor age Office: and the f 1 i ght er ew - Captain Kenjyu Terauchi; First Officer Takonori Tamefuji; and Flight Engineer Yoshi o Tsukuda. Th~ interviews were in response to the sighting of unknown and unidentified air traffic which accompanied the flight from the Alaska Canadian border on the north along a flight pl an which flows approximately from Ft. Yukon, Alaska, to Fairbanks, to Anchorage. NOTES: * FLIGHT NUMBER JAL 1628, Dep. Reykjavik, I eel and. * ADI Z, HL529 •.• J529 ... (Airway numbers) Contact at POT ATC) * Visual contact.. can see FA!, over FA! did 360 degrees. * S. MJ-125, Route continued ..• i I
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