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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.
0244:43 Rl5 0245:04 UA69 0245:10 RlS 0245:J.6 UA69 0245:24 Rl5 0245:46 UA69 0245:49 RlS 0246:06 UA69 0246:12 Rl5 0246:22 UA69 United sixty nine heavy sir I've got a Japan Air seven forty seven presently in your eleven o'clock position and one hundred and one correction one one zero miles and he has traffic (unintelligible) I' 11 keep you advised ah when you're closer to him I want you to see if you see anything with him Okay fine ah we'll look for ya United sixty nine heavy sir if you can I would like to identify the ah type of aircraft 'l;hen you go by him Okay you got some background ah noise so you you want us to identify the trailing aircraft if we can United sixty nine heavy affirmative Say again the location of the · traffic for United sixty nine United sixty nine heavy in your eleven o'clock position one zero zero miles southbound is a Japan Air seven forty seven he is at flight level three one zero says he has traffic at his nine o'clock position same altitude We'll be looking that's ah ah can't see anything yet Roger sir he's ah way up to ah to the north of you with your concurrence I'm gonna put you on a vector and take you ah closer to him ah so when you pass you'll be within five miles of each other Okay you're uh something wrong with your transmitter or something but ah I think your talking to United sixty nine
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