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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.

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  • p. 4 …receiving any radar replies Ah negative One dash two go ahead Ya could you look ah…
  • p. 7 …25 R/Dl5 0226:33 ROCC 0226:35 R/Dl5 One dash two's on Ya…
  • p. 8 …20 JL1628 R15 Okay R-F One dash two Ya ah reference that ah (unintelligible) Okay…
  • p. 13 …55 R15 0238:00 JL1628 0238:54 R15 0238:57 JL1628 Ya one dash two are…
  • p. 14 …eight Anchorage Center Ya this is one dash two again on some other equipment here we…
0226 : 36 ROCC
(0227)
0227 : 43 ROCC
0227 : 45 R/Dl5
0227:48 ROCC
0227 : 49 R/Dl5
0227 : 50 ROCC
0227:52 R/Dl5
0227: 53 ROCC
0227:58 R/Dl5
0228 : 04 ROCC
0228:09 R/Dl5
0228 :10 ROCC
(0229)
(0230) .
0230 ~ 16
0230: 20
JL1628
R15
Okay R-F
One dash two
Ya ah reference that ah (unintelligible)
Okay
That is unknown to us
It is what
It is ah unknown to us
It i~ an unknown okay we've lost contact with it now
Okay were not working that aircraft (unintelligible)
Okay I - I'm still not I we lost contact on him now
I don't see him at all
Okay
Okay R-F
(unintelligible )
Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy you' r e coming
in broken say again

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