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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 6 - flight 1628 0249:52 R15 0250:00 UA69 0250:05 UA69 0250:07 R15 0250:14 UA69 0250:46 R15 0250:52 JL1628 0251:32 UA69 0251:49 Rl5 0252:31 'IDTEM 0252:36 Rl5 0253:10 Rl5 0253:13 JL1628 0253:27 Rl5 0253:31 JL1628 0254:04 'roI'EM United sixty nine heavy; roger. The Japan Air says the traffic is in his seven to eight o'clock position and one zero miles in-trail. Okay, we're lookin. Why Cbn't you get us a little closer? United sixty nine heavy; roger. Another additional ten degrees left. Roger, United sixty nine. United sixty nine, that's what he says. Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy, say the :position of your traffic rt::M. Ah-IXM distinguishing but, ah-ah-your I guess, ah-twelve o'clock below-ah-you, over. Ah, Center fran United ah sixty nine. Ah-the-ah-Japan Airliner is silhouetted against a-ah-light sky. I don't see anybody around him at all. I can see his ntrail but I sure don't see any other airplanes. Do you see him? United sixty nine heavy, ah-negative sir. We got just a very few primary hits on the ah-target and then ah-we really haven't got a good track on him ever. If you want we've got extra gas we could bop up another five or six thousand feet and turn around. 'Ibtem (military Cl30 flight) seven one, ah roger sir. If you'd like ah-standby, ---- 'Ibtem seven one, turn ah-right, heading ~ five, rrection turn right, heading ~ seven zero, radar vectors to intercept. Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy, descend at pilot discretion, maintain flight level two five zero. Japan Air sixteen twenty eight, ah-pilot's discretion, maintain ah-ah-two five zero, so-ah-ah-I cann::>t, I uldn't see ah-U-F-0, over . Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy. Understand you do not see the traffic any longer. Affinnative. Okay sir, we're searching this time, we think we have him. TOTEM = Military C130 aircraft
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