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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
0242:16 0242:24 0242:29 0242:31 0242:35 0242:42 (0243) (0244) 0244:07 0244:12 0244:13 0244:17 0244 : 39 0244 : 41 JL1628 ROCC DlS ROCC JL1628 RlS RlS JL1628 RlS JL1628 RlS UA69 Ah pilot's discretion two five zero Japan Air sixteen twenty eight It looks like he he ah off set left and then possibly fell back in-trail however I can't see him now I can't pick him out Okay thank you very much S-R R-F Ah we have - Anchorage Center Japan Air one six two eight ah we have in sight same position over Japan Air sixteen twenty eight understand in sight in same position Japan Air sixteen twenty eight sir do you still have the traffic Ah say again please Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy do you still have the traffic Ah affirmative ah nine o'clock ah ah United sixty nine Anchorage request Ah go ahead United sixty nine heavy
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