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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.
“Rogers”14 pages
0222:36 JL1628 0222:41 R/Dl5 0222:46 JL1628 0222:48 R/Dl5 0222:52 JL1628 0222 : 55 JL1628 0223:00 R/Dl5 0223:05 JL1628 0223:10 R/Dl5 0223:13 JL1628 0223 : 19 R/Dl5 0223:26 JL1628 0223:35 ROCC 0223 : 37 R/015 Just ah now (unintelligible) Japan Air sixteen twenty eight your garbled change to frequency one three three point one Ah confirm one three three one Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy affi"rmative Thank you Anchorage Center Japan Air sixteen twenty eight flight .level three five zero Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy roger and do you have clouds apove you or below you bel~w - below us Japan Air sixteen twenty eight Japan Air sixteen twenty .eight roger And now the target ah traffic is ah extinguished ah we cannot see now Japan Air sixteen twenty eight roger and I'm not receiving any radar replies Ah negative One dash two go ahead Ya could you look ah approximately forty miles south of Fort Yukon there should be a code up there of one five five zero can you tell me you see a primary target about his position
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