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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.
“Japan Air Lines Flight 1628”2 pages
page 3 - flight 1628 0234:52 R15 0234:56 JL1628 0235:02 R15 0235:24 D15 0235:27 FBKS 0235:30 D15 0235:39 D15 0235:44 FBKS 0236:12 JL1628 0236:18 R15 0236:24 JL1628 0236:37 R15 0236:47 JL1628 0237:23 RCX:X:: 0237:25 D15 0237:29 D15 0237:30 RCX:X:: 0237:32 Dl5 Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy, understand your traffic is over Fairbanks at this time. Affirmative - - ah request heading two one zero. Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy, roger. Deviations approved as necessaxy for traffic. Approach center (Fairbanks FAA to.ver) on the sixty one line. Approach. Look at your radar. We got a Japan Air one six two eight, ah-he's deviating. He's about ah-five miles n:Jrth of Fairbanks V-0-R squawking one five five zero. Do you have any traffic with him? He sees traffic, he was deviating. Ah - ya, n:J we don't. I don't see anything there aside fran his, ah-his target. Ah-Anchorage Center; Japan Air one six two eight, request direct ah-Talkeetna. Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy, cleared direct Talkeetna, and in-ah-advise me of your p:>sition of your traffic? Ah, same p:>, same p:>sition. Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy, ah-sir I'm gonna request you to make a right turn, three six zero degrees, three hundred and sixty degree turn, and advise me what your traffic does then. Right turn, three sixty. Okay. We have, n:J, we have cxmfirmed, we have n:J military aircraft working up there. Okay thank you very much. You have n:J traffic at all? That's oorrect, does he (JAL-1628) still have sanebody visual? He says he does. FBKS = Fairbanks Airport FAA Approach Cc:ntrol ( 'IOOer)
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