Radar Report
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733667-001-014-0004
National Archives and Records Administration
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This document details a communication exchange between Japan Air flight 1628 and the Fairbanks FAA tower regarding unidentified traffic observed by the flight. The exchange indicates that the flight was deviating from its course due to an unidentified object, with no military aircraft reported in the area.
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| Location | Context | Confidence | Supporting text |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairbanks Airport | Airport Location | Unresolved | …irmed, we have no military aircraft working up there. 0237:25 D115 Okay thank you very much. 0237:29 D115 You have no traffic at all? 0237:30 ROC That's correc |
| Fairbanks at this time | Sighting Location | Unresolved | page 3 - flight 1628 0234:52 R15 Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy, understand your traffic is over Fairbanks at this time. 0234:56 JL1628 Affirmative - - ah |
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page 3 - flight 1628
0234:52 R15 Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy, understand your traffic
is over Fairbanks at this time.
0234:56 JL1628 Affirmative - - ah request heading two one zero.
0235:02 R15 Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy, roger. Deviations
approved as necessary for traffic.
0235:24 D15 Approach center (Fairbanks FAA tower) on the sixty one line.
0235:27 FBKS Approach.
0235:30 D15 Look at your radar. We got a Japan Air one six two eight,
ah-he's deviating. He's about ah-five miles north of
Fairbanks V-O-R Squawking one five five zero.
0235:39 D115 Do you have any traffic with him? He sees traffic, he was
deviating.
0235:44 FBKS Ah - ya, no we don't. I don't see anything there aside from
his, ah-his target.
0236:12 JL1628 Ah-Anchorage Center; Japan Air one six two eight, request
direct ah-Talkeetna.
0236:18 R15 Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy, cleared direct
Talkeetna, and in-ah-advise me of your position of your
traffic?
0236:24 JL1628 Ah, same po, same position.
0236:37 R15 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.
0236:47 JL1628 Right turn, three sixty.
0237:23 ROCC Okay. We have, no, we have confirmed, we have no military
aircraft working up there.
0237:25 D115 Okay thank you very much.
0237:29 D115 You have no traffic at all?
0237:30 ROC That's correct, does he (JAL-1628) still have somebody
visual?
0237:32 D15 He says he does.
FBKS = Fairbanks Airport FAA Approach Control (Tower) ‘