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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
(0234) 0234:38 RlS 0234:42 JL1628 0234:S2 RlS 0234:S6 JL1628 023S:02 RlS 023S:lS RlS 023S:20 JL1628 023S:24 DIS 023S:27 APCH 023S:28 Dl5 023S : 29 APCH 023S:30 DIS 023S:38 APCH Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy say position of your traffic Affirmative west of ah Fairbanks Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy understand your traffic is over Fairbanks at this time Affirmative - - ah request heading two one zero Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy deviations approved as necessary for traffic roger Japan Air sixteen twenty eight say altitude of your traffic Ah ou ah sa ah same level Approach center on the sixty one line Approach Have you got a second Sure go ahead Look at your radar We got a Japan Air one six two eight ah he's deviating he's about ah five miles north of Fairbanks V-0-R squawking one five five zero Uh huh
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