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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
0235:39 Dl5 0235 : 42 Rl5 0235:43 015 0235 : 44 APCH 0235 : 49 Dl5 0235 : 50 APCH (0236) 0236 : 12 JL1628 0236 : 18 Rl5 0236:24 JL1628 0236 : 37 Rl5 0236 : 47 JL1628 (0 237 ) 0237 : 12 015 Do you have any traffic with him he sees traffic he was deviating I already asked approach Oh he's already asked you I guess h.uh Ah - ya no we don't I don't see anything there aside from his ah his target Okay thank you S-R Unintelligible Ah Anchorage Center Japan Air one six two eight request direct ah Talkeetna Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy cleared direct Talkeetna and in ah advise me of your position of your traffic Ah same po same position Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy ah sir I'm gonna request you to make a right turn three six zero degrees three hundred antl sixty degree turn and advise me what your traffic does then Right turn three sixty Anchorage Center
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