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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
0246 : 34 0246:46 0246:48 0246 : 54 0246:59 0247:06 0247:09 0247:10 . (0248) 0248 : 11 0248 :13 0248 : 16 0248 : 19 Rl5 UA69 Rl5 JL1628 Rl5 JL1628 Rl5 UA69 UA69 Rl5 UA69 P..15 United sixty nine heavy that is affirmative sir I'm gonna take you on a vector closer to the Japan Air he' 11 still be at flight level three one zero and I'm gonna keep you at flight level two nine zero as long as you can stay up with your approval That' 11 be fine Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy maintain flight level three one zero Japan Air one six two eight (unintelligible) maintain three one zero Japan Air sixteen twenty eight roger I'm gonna have a United aircraft get close to you and take a look ah to see if he can identify your traffic Thank you United sixty nine heavy turn ten degrees left radar vectors ah to see traffic Left United sixty nine Ah say again the traffic (unintelligible) Aircraft calling Anchorage Center w1 th traffic say again United sixty nine can you point the traffic out again please United sixty nine heavy affirmative the ah Japan Air is in your eleven o'clock position and five zero miles southbound
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