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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
(0256) 0256:02 TOTEM 0256:04 Rl5 0256:10 TOTEM 0256:13 Rl5 0256:17 TOTEM 0256:22 JL1628 0256:28 Rl5 0256:40 JL1628 ( 0257) 0257:13 R15 0257:18 JL1628 (0258) (0259) Okay sir Totem seven one wilco And Totem seven one sir after your ah the seven forty seven goes by you ah your discretion direct Eilson Okay that would be Elmendorf sir but ah understand direct Totem seven one that's my correction sir be direct Elmendorf your discretion Roger sir Anchorage Center Japan Air one six two eight leaving ah three one zero for ah two five zero now Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy roger and traffic in your eleven o'clock ah correction your ten o'clock position five miles westbound is a military C one thirty flight level two four zero Roger Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy contact Anchorage Center one one eight point two Eight point two good day End of Transcript
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