Documents / Hearing transcript
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
0232:00 Rl5 0232:03 APCH 0232: 04 Rl5 0232:05 APCH 0232:07 JL1628 0232:20 JL1628 0232:25 Rl5 0232:34 Rl5 0232:39 JL1628 0232:41 Rl5 0232:45 JL1628 0232:58 Rl5 0233:00 JL1628 0233:07 Rl5 Okay if you see a primary watch that fifteen fifty code if you have time Ya If you see a primary with it keep your eye on it and he should be at three five oh also Alright very good we're watching 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 twenty eight transmissions are broken say again Flight level three one zero heavy your 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 coming ah ah right formation in ah formation Japan Air sixteen twenty eight understand
Hearing transcript, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 25 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.