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This FAA document, labeled AAL-5 and dated February 4, 1987, gives selected portions of the air traffic control transcripts for Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 on November 18, 1986 (UTC). It records the crew reporting unidentified traffic with navigation and strobe lights near Fort Yukon and Fairbanks. Anchorage Center, Fairbanks approach and military ROCC radar discuss intermittent primary returns. A United flight and a military C-130 are brought in to look, and neither sees any other aircraft.
page two - flight 1628 0225 : 50 R/Dl5 0225:57 Rcx:x: 0226:03 R/D15 0226:18 RCXX::: 0226:25 R/D15 0227:53 RCXX::: 0230:56 JL1628 0231:48 R15 0231:58 FBKS 0232:04 R15 0232:05 FBKS 0232:07 JL1628 0232:20 JL1628 0232:25 R15 0232:41 R15 0232:45 JL1628 0232:58 R15 0233:00 JL1628 Nes;iative, uhuh, it's not erruneous. I want you (ROCC) to keep a good track on there, and if you pick up a c:xxle, and verify that you do not have any aircraft operating in that area military. That is affirm. We do not have anybody up there right row, ah. can you give me the position of the primary your receiving? Okay, I'm not. I'm ah, picking up a primary - approximately five zero miles, south, right up there - right in front of the ah, one five five zero c:xxle. Okay, I've got him about his-ah, oh-it looks like about, ah- ten o'clock, at about that range, yes. Alright keep an eye on that, and ah-see if-ah, any other military (unintelligible) in that area. It is an unknc:Mn, okay, we've lost oontact with it rY:M. It's ah, I think ah, very quite big ah, plane. Are you (Fairbanks FAA tc:Mer) pickin up a primary target right with that aircraft? Ah, no. It's (the JL1628) the only target I see there. If you see a primary with it, keep your eye on it. And he should be at three five oh(zero)also. Alright, very good, we' re watching. Japan Air sixteen twenty eight, ah request descent. Japan Air sixteen twenty eight, request three one zero. Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy, understand, requesting flight level three one zero. Japan Air sixteen one er correction sixteen twenty eight heavy, descend at pilot discretion-maintain flight level three one zero. Leaving three five zero to three one zero. Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy, do you still have your traffic? Stl. 11 ah rv-m; nrr ah, ah, right formation, in ah formation., , ~·~~
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