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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.
“Rogers”14 pages
0240:44 TOTEM 0240:48 Rl5 0240:55 JL1628 0240:59 Rl5 (0241) 0241:07 JL1628 0241:49 ROCC 0241:51 Dl5 0241 : 56 ROCC 0241 : 59 Dl5 0242:00 ROCC 0242:04 JL1628 0242 : 09 Rl5 Anchorage Center you have Totem seven one up here ah we might be able to get close to him Japan Air sixteen twenty eight you were broken say again Ah say again Japan Air sixteen twenty eight Japan Air sixteen twenty eight your transmission was broken sir we do have military aircraft in your vicinity that we can ah check on the ah traffic with you Ah (unintelligible) sixteen twenty eight no radar traffic above On~ two's on Roger where's that ah are you still painting a primary ah by that Japan Airlines flight squawking fifteen fifty Okay let me look at my other Can you tell where's the position of it Okay standby Anchorage Center Japan Air sixteen twenty eight confirm direct to Talkeetna three one zero Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy affirmative direct Talkeetna and descend at pilot's discretion maintain flight level two five zero
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