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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
0223 : 51 ROCC (0224) 0224 : 09 R/Dl5 0224 :11 ROCC 0224 :13 R/Dl5 0224 :14 ROCC 0224 :17 JL1628 0224:19 R/Dl5 0224 : 21 ROCC 0224: 50 R/Dl5 02 24 : 53 JL1628 0225 : 02 R/Dl5 0225 :12 JL1628 0225: 18 R/Dl5 Okay stand-by - - I'm going to expand out - - just a moment here - - one five five zero squawk huh Affirmative Let me take a look here High altitude thirty five thousand Okay let me switch over to my other scope here Japan Air sixteen twenty eight Alright I'll see what ah I'll call you right back Okay R-F Japan Air sixteen twenty eight do you still have ah visual contact with the ah traffic Affirmative ah so we radar contact ah (unintelligible) Japan Air sixteen tYenty eight heavy roger sir I'm picking up a ah hit on the radar approximately five miles in trail of your six o'clock position do you concur Ah negative ah eleven o'clock ah eight miles ah same level over Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy roger
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