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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.
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page two - flight 1628 0225 : 50 R/Dl5 0225 : 57 RCXX: 0226 : 03 R/Dl5 0226 : 18 RCXX: 0226 : 25 R/Dl5 0227 : 53 RCX:X: 0230:56 JL1628 0231:48 Rl5 0231 : 58 FEKS 0232 :04 Rl5 0232: 05 FBKS 0232:07 JL1628 0232 : 20 JL1628 0232: 25 Rl5 0232 : 41 · Rl5 0232:45 JL1628 0232: 58 Rl5 0233:00 JL1628 Negative, uhuh, it' s not erroneous. I want you ( RCXX:) to keep a good track on there, and if you pick up a code, and verify that you do not have 8f¥ aircraft operating in that area military. That is aff.i.nn. We do not have anytody up there right r'Dll, ah. can you give me the position of the primary your . . ? receiving. Okay, I ' m not. I'm ah, picking up a primary - approximately five zero miles, south, right up there - right in front of the ah, one five five zero code. Okay, I've got him about his-ah, oh-it looks like ab:Jut, ah- ten o'clock, at ab:Jut that range, yes. Alright keep an eye on that, and ah-see if-ah, 8f¥ other military (unintelligible) in that area. It is an unkn:Jwn, okay, we've lost contact with it n:::M. It's ah, I think ah, very quite big ah, plane. Are you (Fairbanks FAA tower) pickin up a primary target right with that aircraft? Ah, ro. It's (the JL1628J the only target I see there. If you see a primary with it, keep your eye on it. And he should be at three five oh(zero)also. Alright, very good, we're watchinJ. Japan Air sixteen twenty eight, ah request descent. Japan Air sixteen twenty eight, request three one zero. Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy, understand, requesting flight level three one zero. Japan Air sixteen one er correction sixteen twenty eight heavy, descend at pilot discretion-maintain flight level three one zero. Leaving three five zero to three one zero. Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy, do you still have your traffic? Still, ah, ~ ah, ah, right fonnation, in ah fonnation.
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