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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
- p. 3 …negative
Ah Japan Air sixteen twenty eight roger and ah we
insight ah two traffic ah…
- p. 4 …zero
Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy roger and do
you have clouds apove you or…
- p. 5 …negative
Ah Japan Air sixteen twenty eight roger and ah we
insight ah two traffic ah…
- p. 6 …unintelligible)
Japan Air sixteen tYenty eight heavy roger sir I'm
picking up a ah hit…
- p. 9 …four zero
Japan Air sixteen twenty eight roger fly heading two
four zero - - - Japan Air sixteen…
- p. 11 …heavy
deviations approved as necessary for traffic
roger
Japan Air sixteen twenty eight say altitude of…
- p. 14 …yes
Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy roger at your
discretion proceed direct Talkeetna Jay one…
- p. 15 …the traffic for you
Roger
Japan Air six teen twenty eight roger would you like
us…
- p. 16 …radar
traffic above
On~ two's on
Roger where's that ah are you still painting…
- p. 18 …ah ah can't see anything yet
Roger sir he's ah way up to ah…
- p. 19 …one zero
Japan Air sixteen twenty eight roger I'm gonna have
a United aircraft get…
- p. 20 …UA69
Rl5
UA69
UA69
Rl5
UA69
Ah roger thank you
Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy…
- p. 22 …and turn around
Totem seven one ah roger sir if you'd like ah
standby - Totem…
- p. 24 …correction sir be direct
Elmendorf your discretion
Roger sir
Anchorage Center Japan Air one six two…
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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