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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…
T. Tamefuji Ah huh
P. Beckner And um, let me just do this. I can find out and let you know.
T. Tamefuji Arid ah, well Saturday ah, ah, TV interview from New York.
P. Beckner Oh is that right.
T. Tamefuji Yeah
P. Beckner Ch
T. Tamefuji And ah, the interview said military, some kind of commander I
don't remember, but, ah, some military •••
P. Beckner Military ~military ah, commander?
T. Tamefuji Ah, how should I say, but some personnel from military said this
was a weather interference.
S. Mimoto And this military commander said it was a weather interfere •••
interference.
P. Beckner (unintelligible)
T. Tamefuji Ah, on the radar
s. Mi mo to On the radar
P. Beckner Okay, that I ... that I don't know, um
T. Tamefuji But ah, it was clear sky, so • . .
P. Beckner Right
T. Tamefuji there's no possibility of weather interference.
P. Beckner On the weather, interference, okay. Well I'll do this, I will
find out what the result of the analysis is on those. We're
going to eventually get that anyway. And I'll let you know what
we have. Okay? I have your phone number so I'll do that. Okay?
T. Tamefuji Yes
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