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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.
“Mission Control”1 page
T. Tamefuji . . . and ah, the object was in left-hand side . . . P. Beckner Okay. T. Tamefuji . . . and very dark vision, so . . . P. Beckner Okay. T. Tamefuji . • . so I couldn't see, but ah at first ah, humm, (unintelligibl•) what can I write . . • P. Beckner Just kinda picture in your mind what you saw • . . T. Tamefuji Humm. P. Beckner . . . and then put that on paper, and I'm going to shut the door here. T. Tamefuji Humm, it was ah, left right clock head-on traffic • . . P.Beckner Okay. T. Tamefuji I just to see and ah, humm, left right? P. Beckner Yes T. Tamefuji Ah, in night flight head--on traffic we can see just ah, light • P. Beckner Lights, okay. T. Tamefuji we cannot see the total shape ••• P. Beckner Shape T. Tamefuji shape P. Beckner Okay T. Tamefuji ••• so (unintelligible) I thought it was ah, head-on traffic P. Beckner Okay T. Tamefuji Mmmm, so I couldn't, can't write ah, exactly . . • P. Beckner Would you say it was just . . • ? T. Tamefuji Just light . . . P. Beckner Okay it was more than, s--was there more than like what would say there was six lights . . .? 2 you
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