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This FAA memorandum from Quentin J. Gates, Air Traffic Manager at the Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center, is dated January 9, 1987. It certifies a transcript of radio and interphone communications about Japan Airlines Flight 1628 on November 18, 1986, from 0214 to 0259 UTC. The crew reports unidentified traffic nearby. Military radar notes intermittent primary returns. United Airlines Flight 69 and a military C-130 are vectored to look, but neither sees any other aircraft near the 747.
“Anchorage”13 pages
- p. 2 …Agencies Making Transmissions Abbreviations
Japan Airlines Flight 1628 JL1628
Anchorage ARTCC Combined Sector R/Dl5 R…
- p. 3 …Dl5
JL1628
R/Dl5
JL1628
R/Dl5
Anchorage Center Japan Air sixteen twenty eight ah
do…
- p. 4 …twenty eight heavy affi"rmative
Thank you
Anchorage Center Japan Air sixteen twenty eight
flight .level…
- p. 5 …Dl5·
JL1628
R/Dl5
JL1628
R/D15
Anchorage Center Japan Air sixteen twenty eight ah
do…
- p. 12 …Okay thank you S-R
Unintelligible
Ah Anchorage Center Japan Air one six two eight
request…
- p. 14 …ah disappeared Japan Air sixteen twenty eight
Anchorage Center
Ya this is one dash two again…
- p. 15 …JL1628
Rl5
Japan Air sixteen twenty eight Anchorage request
Go ahead
Roger sir would you like…
- p. 16 …09 Rl5
Anchorage Center you have Totem seven one up here ah
we might be able…
- p. 17 …S-R
R-F
Ah we have - Anchorage Center Japan Air one six two
eight ah…
- p. 19 …say again the traffic (unintelligible)
Aircraft calling Anchorage Center w1 th traffic say
again
United sixty…
- p. 22 …for your
help
Totem seven one contact Anchorage Center one one
eight point two
If you…
- p. 24 …be direct
Elmendorf your discretion
Roger sir
Anchorage Center Japan Air one six two eight leaving…
- p. 25 …Airway route
Internal Navigation System
(Anchorage) Air Route Traffic Control Center (Enroute traffic)
PVD Plan View…
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