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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.
“Japan Air Lines Flight 1628”5 pages
F. Fujii Size, estimate, ah, size K. Terauchi (More Japanese) Two times, or ah, I guess ah . . . F. Fujii (unintelligible) seven four seven R. Gordon Okay K. Terauchi So ah, size is ah, carrier R. Gordon Ah uh, in other words this being the jumbo jet was about as big as just the light . . .? K. Terauchi See this is the jumbo jet. 1.5, two times this light. R. Gordon Okay, okay, I have ••• so the side light on this thing was about, the jumbo is about two to two-and-a-half time the size of this light, so when you stack 'em up, you ••• K. Terauchi Yeah, yeah, yeah • • • R. Gordon were saying about two times as big as an aircraft carrier. K. Terauchi Yeah, yeah, yeah. R. Gordon Okay K. Terauchi It felt like this big - (he made a circle by using his fingers); seven to eight miles away and it was this big. Normally, an air carrier is seven - eight miles away, it looks like this. F. Fujii Seven or eight miles away, usually the aircrafts are like this • R. Gordon Ah uh, okay F. Fujii About this big so • • • R. Gordon Okay F. Fujii with his estimate. R. Gordon So he's kinda comparing it to another jumbo jet? F. Fujii Yeah, yeah • • • R. Gordon Okay S. Mimoto (More Japanese) Tremendous R. Gordon Oh yeah (laughter), boy, okay F. Fujii Go for this size here, this one. 11 ~- -
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