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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
0237: 13 ROCC 0237:18 Dl5 0237:19 ROCC 0237 : 21 Dl5 0237 : 23 ROCC 0237:25 Dl5 0237:27 ROCC 0237 : 29 015 0237:30 ROCC 0237:32 Dl5 0237:33 ROCC 0237 : 55 R15 0238:00 JL1628 0238:54 R15 0238:57 JL1628 Ya one dash two are you still working the one five five zero squawk One five ah Ya he's the one that had somebody in front of him level Yes Okay we have no we have confirmed we have no military aircraft working up there Okay thank you very much Does he still have tally on the aircraft out there You have no traffic at all That's correct does he still have somebody visual He says he does Oh okay thank you Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy sir does your tra f fic a ppear to be staying with you (unintelligible) just looking Japan Air sixteen twenty eight sir do you still have the traffic Ah (unintelligible) distinguished
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