Pilot Report
Unclassified Complete
733667-001-015-0020
National Archives and Records Administration
Confidence
85%
Credibility
80%
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Intelligence summary
This document appears to be a transcript of radio communications involving United Airlines Flight 69 and Japan Air Flight 1628, discussing the position of the aircraft and unidentified traffic in the vicinity.
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| Location | Context | Confidence | Supporting text |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy say | Sighting Location | Unresolved | …m ah he's at his seven to eight o'clock position huh United sixty nine that's what he says Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy Say the position of your traffi |
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Jun 16, 2026
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1,243 characters, transcribed via OCR. Errors reflect the source scan. Compare with the original ↗
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0250:46
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0251:06
0251:32
0251:49
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0252:12
UA69
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JL1628
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United sixty nine heavy we've got the Japan Airliner
insight I don't see anybody around him ah he's at
his seven to eight o'clock position huh
United sixty nine that's what he says Japan Air
sixteen twenty eight heavy Say the position of your
traffic now
Ah now distinguishing but ah ah your I guess ah
twelve o'clock below ah you over
Japan Air sixteen twenty eight heavy say again
you're broken
Just ahead of ah United ah (unintelligible)
Ah- Center from 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
contrail 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
Yeah we'd like to start down now United sixty nine
United sixty nine heavy cleared direct Fairbanks
descend at pilot discretion maintain one zero
thousand Fairbanks altimeter three zero two two
Town to one zero thousand direct to Fairbanks United
sixty nine