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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
T. Tamefuji . left--hand and ah, ten or eleven . . . P. Beckner Ten or eleven? T. Tamefuji Right P. Beckner Okay T. Tamefuji And I thought that it was low •• . P. Beckner Okay T. Tamefuji And' (unintelligible) I thought ah, traffic way, I image aircraft ah, lighting, navigation lights . . . P. Be'ckner Right T. Tamefuji and landing lights . . . P. Beckner Okay T. Tamefuji (unintelligible) .... light P. Beckner Right T. Tamefuji but ah, it is my (unintelligible) for now I thought it was an aircraft so • s. Mimoto · I thought it was an aircraft. 'P. Beckner Okay s. Mi mo to Ah . P. Beckner Did you in your mind try to make it . . . T. Tamefuji Yes P. Bec kner • • . look like an aircraft? T. Tame f uji Yeah P. Bec kner I can do the same thing, . . . T. Tamef uj i Yes P. Beckner • so ah . . . I understand. T. Tamefu j i And , but ah , very strange ah, I ah, it was too many lights . . . P. Beckner Too many? T. Tamefuji Yes 5
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