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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.
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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