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1.8.2
b) Kenai air route surveillance radar (ARSR), with a coverage which varied from 150
to 175 NM above FL 280:
c) Cairn Mountain non-directional beacon (NDB), located on route J501;
d) Bethel VORTAC (VOR and TACAN combination), with a coverage which extended
approximately 135 NM east and 160 NM west of Bethel;
e) St. Paul Island NDB and DME, which was 140 NM from NABIE; and
f) Shemya VOR with a coverage which extended to approximately 175 NM. A DME
element of a TACAN located at Shemya was also available.
There were no recordings of defects to any of the above aids at the time of the flight's passage. The VOR/DME at Anchorage was out of service from 22:17 hours on 23 August to 00:39 hours on 2 September 1983. The information that Anchorage VOR/DME was out of service had been disseminated by a NOTAM.
1.8.3
Radials to the north and south of the Shemya VOR were flight checked after the incident and confirmed that reporting points abeam Shemya, including NEEVA, were within the range of the VOR.
1.9
1.9.1 follows:
Communications
The facilities which were involved in communications related to flight KE 007 were as
a) Facilities providing aeronautical mobile service (AMS)-air-ground communications:
Anchorage ATC clearance delivery, tower and radar approach control
(CD/TWR/APP)
Anchorage air route traffic control centre (ARTCC)
Anchorage international flight service station (IFSS) (Anchorage Radio) Tokyo aeronautical station (Tokyo Radio)
Tokyo area control centre (ACC)
b) Facilities providing aeronautical fixed service (AFS):
Anchorage ARTCC
Anchorage AFTN communication centre
Tokyo ACC
Tokyo AFTN communication centre
Sapporo ACC
Seoul AFTN communication centre.
Khabarovsk ACC
Khabarovsk AFTN communication centre Moskva AFTN communication centre