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733667-001-024-0001
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This document details an interview conducted with the flight crew of Japan Air Lines flight 1628 regarding their sighting of unidentified aerial phenomena while en route to Tokyo via Anchorage, Alaska. The interviews were held by FAA officials in response to the reported sighting.
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| Location | Context | Confidence | Supporting text |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anchorage, AK | Investigation Location | Medium | …kan Region, and constitutes the information obtained in personal interviews held the evening of Novmber 17, 1986, at Anchorage International Airport, with the |
| Anchorage, AK | Unknown Context | Low | FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION ALASKAN REGION 701 C Street, Anchorage, Alaska, 99513 DECEMBER 30, 1986 CONTACT: PAUL STEUCKE, FAA, PUBLIC AFFAIRS, ALASKA (907) |
| Flows approximately from Ft. Yukon, Alaska | Investigation Location | Unresolved | …ficer Takonori Tamefuji; and Flight Engineer Yoshio Tsukuda. The interviews were in response to tne sighting of unknown and unidentified air traffic which acco |
| Tokyo via Anchorage, Alaska | Investigation Location | Unresolved | This document details an interview conducted with the flight crew of Japan Air Lines flight 1628 regarding their sighting of unidentified aerial phenomena while |
| Anchorage International Airport | Investigation Location | Unresolved | …s, has been provided to Paul Steucke, FAA Public Affairs Officer, Alaskan Region, by Jim Derry, Manager, FAA Security. Division, Alaskan Region, and constitute |
| FAI did | Sighting Location | Unresolved | …a flight plan which Flows approximately from Ft. Yukon, Alaska, to Fairbanks, to Anchorage. NOTES: * FLIGHT NUMBER JAL 1628, Dep. Reykjavik, Iceland. * ADIZ, H |
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FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
ALASKAN REGION
701 C Street, Anchorage, Alaska, 99513
DECEMBER 30, 1986
CONTACT: PAUL STEUCKE, FAA, PUBLIC AFFAIRS, ALASKA
(907) 271-5296
The following information constructed from personal handwritten
notes, has been provided to Paul Steucke, FAA Public Affairs
Officer, Alaskan Region, by Jim Derry, Manager, FAA Security.
Division, Alaskan Region, and constitutes the information
obtained in personal interviews held the evening of Novmber 17,
1986, at Anchorage International Airport, with the flight crew of
Japan Air Lines flight 1628, enroute from Europe and Iceland/ to
Toyko, via Anchorage, Alaska.
Attending the interview were: Jim Derry, Manager, Security
Division, FAA: Ron Mickle, Investigator, FAA Security: Jack |
Wright, Investigator, FAA Flight Standards District Office, the
Manager of the JAL Anchorage Office: and the flight crew -
Captain Kenjyu Terauchi.; First Officer Takonori Tamefuji; and
Flight Engineer Yoshio Tsukuda.
The interviews were in response to tne sighting of unknown and
unidentified air traffic which accompanied the flight from the
Alaska Canadian border on the north along a flight plan which
Flows approximately from Ft. Yukon, Alaska, to Fairbanks, to
Anchorage.
NOTES:
* FLIGHT NUMBER JAL 1628, Dep. Reykjavik, Iceland.
* ADIZ, HL529...J529... (Airway numbers) Contact at POTAT()
* Visual contact..can see FAI, over FAI did 360 degrees.
* S$. MJ-125, Route
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