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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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0230 : 23 JL1628 0230:31 Rl5 0230:49 JL1628 0230:52 R15 0230:56 JL1628 (0231) 0231:27 Rl5 0231:36 APCH 0231:40 Rl5 0231:47 APCH 0231 : 48 Rl5 0231:51 APCH · 0231:53 R15 0231:58 APCH Request ah deviate ah ah from ah from object request heading two four zero Japan Air sixteen twenty eight roger fly heading two four zero - - - Japan Air sixteen twenty eight ah heavy deviations approved as necessary for traffic It's ah quite big Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy you' re still broken say again It's ah I think ah very quite big ah plane Approach sector fif - - approach fifteen request Go ,ahead Let's see one two miles southeast (unintelligible) you'll see a code of zero at flight level three five zero Ya of the Alpha one five five Are you pickin up a primary target right with that aircraft You mean aside from the aircraft itself Ya ya other than that one are you pickin up a ah it a be primary ah he's probably not squawking a code Ah no it's the only target I see there
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