733667-001-007-0002
AI Summary
This document details a flight report by Capt. Kenju Terauchi regarding an unidentified air traffic sighting during JAL Flight 1628 on November 17, 1986, while flying over Greenland and Canada.
Key Findings
- Flight path included a route over Greenland and the Canadian Arctic. - The flight was smooth despite unstable air currents. - Capt. Terauchi reported an unidentified air traffic sighting during the flight. - The report was translated and received by the FAA on January 2, 1987.
OCR Text
MEETING THE FUTURE ~p 5° | We took a flight course Southeast of Greenland direct to Chule(sp?) where a U.S. military base is by crossing the great icy highland midwest of Greenland. The flight above Greenland, under a nearly full moon which was raising on the right front side of our aircraft helped visibility for the night flight. The flight was smooth despite the unstable air current that shook the Plane for about two hours, but was still a rather stressless flight as compared to a passenger flight. We aimed towards Single Point, on the north coast of Canada, by passing through the Canadian north polar regions and down southwest along an Arctic flight course. It was 4:25 p.m. Alaska time when we reported our location to Edmonton Center from above Single Point, Canada (68 degrees 55 minutes the North Latitude, 137 degrees 15 minutes West Longitude). It had become pitch- Gark perhaps because the -moon was directly behind us near the horizon. We received an order from Edmonton Center that we should contact the [Personal statement concerning JAL Flight 1628 sighting of unidentified air traffic, Nov. 17, 1986. Written by Capt. Kenju Terauchi; translated by Sayoko Mimoto, FAA Alaskan Region, Airway Facilities Division. Received by FAA 1/2/87]
Metadata
- Agency
- —
- Classification
- UNCLASSIFIED
- Department
- National Archives and Records Administration
- Catalog source
- View NARA catalog record
NARA Source
- NAID
- 733667
- File
- 733667-001-007-0002.jpg
- Type
- image/jpeg
No machine-readable OCR text for this asset. Photographs without captions may have no extractable text.