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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
(0254) 0254:04 TOTE2'! 0254:09 Rl5 0254:32 TOTEM 0254:34 Rl5 0254:37 TOTEM (0255) 0255:18 Rl5 0255:25 TOTEM 0255:27 Rl5 0255:31 TOTEM 0255:35 Rl5 0255 : 38 TOTEM 0255 : 58 Rl5 Okay sir we' re searching this time we think we have him Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy flash your landing lights please And Center Totem seven one would like to climb to two four zero Totem seven one climb and maintain flight level two four zero Out of two one zero for two four zero Totem seven one Totem seven one the seven forty seven is now two o'clock one five miles southbound three one zero Ah yes sir ~e've got him insight Totem seven one understand you do have him insight (unintelligible) Totem seven one do you see any traffic in his vicinity Not flashing any lights at this time sir Totem· seven one deviations approved as ah necessary to ah take a look
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