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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.
0240:46 0240 : 50 0240:51 0240 : 54 0240:55 0240:57 0240:58 0240:10 0240:12 0240:13 0240 :17 0240:26 0240:34 0240 : 35 ROCC Dl5 ROCC 015 ROCC 015 ROCC Where is this search return at right behind him or where Say again Ah I'm gonna talk to my other radar man here has gotta he's got some other equipment watching this aircraft Okay Okay we're gonna call the military desk on this Okay thank you Okay R-F (There was an overlap of transmissions during this time frame) Rl5 JL1628 Rl5 JL1628 Rl5 JL1628 Rl5 Japan Air sixteen twenty eight Anchorage request Go ahead Roger sir would you like our military to scramble on the traffic Negative negative Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy sir we do have military ah at Eilson forty miles away I can put em up and let em check the traffic for you Roger Japan Air six teen twenty eight roger would you like us to do that
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