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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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0248 : 28 0248:31 0248 : 34 0248 : 52 (0249) 0249 : 32 0249 : 39 0249 : 45 0249 : 47 0249 : 52 0250 : 00 0250 : 05 0250 : 07 0250 :14 UA69 Rl5 JL1628 Rl5 UA69 Rl5 JL1628 UA69 Rl5 UA69 UA69 Rl5 UA69 Ah roger thank you Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy say the position of your traffic Ah now ah ah moving to ah around ten mile now ah ah position ah seven ah eight o'clock ten mile Japan Air sixteen seventy eight heavy roger Ask that Japan Airliner to ah turn on his lights and turn it off for United sixty nine would ya Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy ah flash your ah ~anding lights on and off please Do now Japan Air sixteen twenty eight Okay we've got the ah Japan Airlines airplane this is United sixty nine United sixty nine heavy roger the Japan Air says the traffic is in his seven to eight o'clock position and one zero miles in-trail Okay we're lookin Why don't you get us a little closer United sixty nine heavy roger another additional ten degrees left Roge r United sixty nine
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