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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 5 - flight 1628 0242:24 ROCX: 0242:29 Dl5 0244:13 Rl5 0244:17 JL1628 0244:39 R15 0244:41 UA69 0244:43 Rl5 0245:04 UA69 0245:49 Rl5 0246:06 UA69 0246:59 R15 0247:06 JL1628 0247:09 R15 0248:31 R15 0248:34 JL1628 0248:52 Rl5 It looks like he, he-ah-offset left, and then possibly fell back in-trail. HCMever, I can't see him rr:M, I can't pick him out. Okay thank you very much S-R. Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy. Do you still have the traffic? Ah-affirmative. Ah-nine o'clock, ah, ah. United sixty nine, Anchorage request. Ah, go ahead, United sixty nine heavy. 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'll 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. In your eleven o'clock position, one, zero, zero miles, southlx>und, 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. Japan Air sixteen twenty eight; roger. I 'm gonna have a United aircraft get close to you and take a look, ah-to see if he can identify your traffic. Thank you. United sixty nine heavy, turn ten degrees left, radar vectors, ah-to see traffic. Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy. Say the position of your traffic. Ah-rDN, ah-ah-rroving to ah-around ten mile, rr:M-ah-ah- position-ah-seven, ah-eight o'clock, ten mile. Japan Air sixteen seventy eight heavy; roger. UA69 = United Airlines flight #69
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