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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.

  • p. 3 …Investi gation of Japan Air Lines flight 1628 Sighting of Unidentified Air Traffic on November 17…
  • p. 5 …but •.• JL1628 = Japan Air Lines flight #1628 Rl.5 = Controller positicn, Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control…
  • p. 7 …sixty one line. Approach. Look at your radar. We got a Japan Air one six~ eight…
  • p. 82 …a report concerning the incident to Japan Airlines Flight 1628 (JL1628) north of Fairbanks, Alaska on…
  • p. 107 …86 unidentified object sighting by Japan Air Lines flight 1628. (5 pages) PLEASE COMPLETE AND RETURN…
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JAL UNIDENT I FIED TR AFFIC SIGHTING Order List continued
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Written Statement by Captain Terauchi;
translated by S. Mimoto of FAA Alaskan
Region. Enilish translation of item #6.
(13 pages)
Transcript of Interview with First Officer
Tamefuji, on 1/5/87 by Inspector Peter
E. Beckner. (23 pages)
Transcript of Interview with Flight Engineer
Tsukuba on 1/15/87 by Inspector Pete
Beckner. (5 pages written, plus 1 page
drawing)
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Chronology of Events, report of Unidentified
Traffic Sighting by Japan Airlines Flight
1628, November 17, 1986. (5 pages)
Transcription of communication between air
traffic control and JAL Flight 1628.
(23 pages)
Flight path chart. 1 page (map)
Personnel statements. (Statements by seven
air traffic control specialists at Anchorage
Center.) (8 pages)
FAA Form 7230-4, Daily Record of Facility
Operations for Anchorage Air Route Traffic
Control Center, showing time and watch
supervisors' entries of major items in
facility log. (3 pages)
FAA Form 7230 - 10, Position Logs. (Record
of which employees were working each
position at what time.) (2 pages)
Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center
computer printout of Continuous Data
Recordings (radar tracking data)
(15 1 pages)
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