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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
0252:18 0252:28 0252:31 0252:36 0252:55 (0253) 0253:10 0253:13 0253:27 0253:31 0253:33 0253:53 Rl5 Rl5 TOTEM Rl5 TOTEM Rl5 JL1628 Rl5 JL1628 Rl5 Rl5 And United sixty nine heavy I thank you for your help Totem seven one contact Anchorage Center one one eight point two If you want we've got extra gas we could bop up another five or six thousand feet and turn around Totem seven one ah roger sir if you'd like ah standby - Totem seven one turn ah right heading two five correction turn right heading two seven zero radar vectors to intercept Two seven zero you want us to go up five or six thousand Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy descend at pilot discretion maintain flight level two five zero Japan Air sixteen twenty eight ah pilot's discretion maintain ah ah two five zero so ah ah I cannot I couldn't see ah U-F-0 over Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy understand you do not see the traffic any longer Affirmative Roger sir I've got a military C one ah thirty that's gonna go over and take a look at it Totem seven one sir the military seven forty seven on completion of your turn will be in your two o'clock position three zero miles southbound at ah flight level three one zero
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