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Full ATC communications transcript

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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.

UTC
NORAD
FSD0-63
PO TAT
J529
INS
ARTCC
Universal Time Coordinated. (Used to be Greenwich Time, Zulu)
North American Defense Air Command
FAA Flight Standards District Office, Anchorage/S.C. Area
Intersection location name on airway map. (Northwest of ·
Fort Yukon.
Airway route
Internal Navigation System
(Anchorage) Air Route Traffic Control Center (Enroute traffic)
PVD Plan View Display (Radar Screen)
ROCC Regional Operations Command Center (Military, AF)
350 35,000 feet elevation
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