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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.

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  • p. 2 …Agencies Making Transmissions Abbreviations Japan Airlines Flight 1628 JL1628 Anchorage ARTCC Combined Sector R/Dl5 R…
  • p. 3 …Dl5 JL1628 R/Dl5 JL1628 R/Dl5 Anchorage Center Japan Air sixteen twenty eight ah do…
  • p. 4 …twenty eight heavy affi"rmative Thank you Anchorage Center Japan Air sixteen twenty eight flight .level…
  • p. 5 …Dl5· JL1628 R/Dl5 JL1628 R/D15 Anchorage Center Japan Air sixteen twenty eight ah do…
  • p. 12 …Okay thank you S-R Unintelligible Ah Anchorage Center Japan Air one six two eight request…
  • p. 14 …ah disappeared Japan Air sixteen twenty eight Anchorage Center Ya this is one dash two again…
  • p. 15 …JL1628 Rl5 Japan Air sixteen twenty eight Anchorage request Go ahead Roger sir would you like…
  • p. 16 …09 Rl5 Anchorage Center you have Totem seven one up here ah we might be able…
  • p. 17 …S-R R-F Ah we have - Anchorage Center Japan Air one six two eight ah…
  • p. 19 …say again the traffic (unintelligible) Aircraft calling Anchorage Center w1 th traffic say again United sixty…
  • p. 22 …for your help Totem seven one contact Anchorage Center one one eight point two If you…
  • p. 24 …be direct Elmendorf your discretion Roger sir Anchorage Center Japan Air one six two eight leaving…
  • p. 25 …Airway route Internal Navigation System (Anchorage) Air Route Traffic Control Center (Enroute traffic) PVD Plan View…
0244:43 Rl5
0245:04 UA69
0245:10 RlS
0245:J.6 UA69
0245:24 Rl5
0245:46 UA69
0245:49 RlS
0246:06 UA69
0246:12 Rl5
0246:22 UA69
United sixty nine heavy sir I've got a Japan Air
seven forty seven presently in your eleven o'clock
position and one hundred and one correction one one
zero miles and he has traffic (unintelligible) I' 11
keep you advised ah when you're closer to him I want
you to see if you see anything with him
Okay fine ah we'll look for ya
United sixty nine heavy sir if you can I would like
to identify the ah type of aircraft 'l;hen you go by
him
Okay you got some background ah noise so you you
want us to identify the trailing aircraft if we can
United sixty nine heavy affirmative
Say again the location of the · traffic for United
sixty nine
United sixty nine heavy in your eleven o'clock
position one zero zero miles southbound is a Japan
Air seven forty seven he is at flight level three
one zero says he has traffic at his nine o'clock
position same altitude
We'll be looking that's ah ah can't see anything yet
Roger sir he's ah way up to ah to the north of you
with your concurrence I'm gonna put you on a vector
and take you ah closer to him ah so when you pass
you'll be within five miles of each other
Okay you're uh something wrong with your transmitter
or something but ah I think your talking to United
sixty nine

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