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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
0250 : 35 UA69 0250:46 Rl5 0250:52 JL1628 (0251) 0251:02 Rl5 0251:06 JL1628 0251:32 UA69 0251 : 49 Rl5 (0252) 0252 : 03 UA69 0252:05 Rl5 0252 : 12 UA69 United sixty nine heavy we've got the Japan Airliner insight I don't see anybody around him ah he's at his seven to eight o'clock position huh United sixty nine that's what he says Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy say the position of your traffic now Ah now distinguishing but ah ah your I guess ah twelve o'clock below ah you over Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy say again you're broken Just ahead of ah United ah (unintelligible) Ah· Center from United ah sixty nine ah the ah . Japan Airliner is silhouetted against a ah light sky I don't see anybody around him at all I can see his contrail but I sure don't see any other airplanes do you see him United sixty nine heavy ah negative sir we got just a very few primary hits on the ah target and then ah we really haven't got a good track on him ever Yeah we'd like to start down now United sixty nine United sixty nine heavy cleared direct Fairbanks descend at pilot discretion maintain one zero thousand Fairbanks altimeter three zero two two Down to one zero thousand direct to Fairbanks United sixty nine
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