United Airlines Flight 2

This is a very strange series of ACARS uplinks from the SFO ground site using 131.55 MHZ. It took place over a period of 12 hours on 28 AUG, 1997 to one specific United flight from Hong Kong to San Francisco (UA 2). This is a very busy time over the North Pacific but no other United flights over the Pacific were being used by this local site. My assumption is that these were messages from the United Flight Dispatcher located in Chicago, sent by land line to the satelitte transmitter somewhere here on the West Caost, and at the same time directed to the VHF site here at the VHF ARINC tranmsitter. But the aircraft was over a thousand miles from its destination and well beyond VHF range.

Notice the GMT times for each of the uplinks.

-----------------------------------------------------------[29/08/1997 05:35]

2 .N176UA RA Q QUCH IARUA

1UA2

RESENT THE FLT PLAN BUT IT NO-ACKED AGAIN...DID YOU

GET ANYTHING

CHIDD STEVE MINECK

-----------------------------------------------------------[29/08/1997 06:51]

2 .N176UA RA S QUCH IARUA~

1UA2

NOT LOOKING TOO GOOD...DO YOU USUALLY GO

WITH MID OR END?

CHIDD STEVE MINECK

-----------------------------------------------------------[29/08/1997 07:57]

2 .N176UA RA T QUCH IARUA~

1UA2 HKGLAX

THERE ARE NO LATER NON-STOPS. ONLY

THING I SEE IS A SHUTTLE UP TO SFO

THEN CONNECTING THRU ORD..DID YOU

GET ANY OF MY FLT PLANS IN HKG

OR DID HKG HAVE TO CARRY THEM OUT.

FOR SUCH A CRITICAL ST.......

-----------------------------------------------------------[29/08/1997 08:07]

2 .N176UA RA U QUCH IARUA~

1UA2 HKGLAX

PLZ ACK..

CHIDD STEVE MINECK

-----------------------------------------------------------[29/08/1997 08:13]

2 .N176UA C1 V .CHI ARUA 2

90813/STE

AGM

AN N176UA

- /UA2 HKGLAX

MORE TO COME

235P 1122A LAX 2 MCO 2040 37Q

CNX SFO 347P 700P 152 20B

CNX ORD 1249A 800A 1056 10P

235P 1122A LAX 2 MCO 2040 37Q

-----------------------------------------------------------[29/08/1997 08:22]

2 .N176UA RA Y QUCH IARUA~

1UA2 HKGLAX

I DONT SEE A WAY OF BEATING THE

RED-EYES TO MCO IF YOU DONT MAKE

THE 2PM TRIP UNLESS YOU GO ON ANOTHER

CARRIER

CHIDD STEVE MINECK

-----------------------------------------------------------[29/08/1997 10:16]

2 .N176UA RA A QUCH IARUA~

1UA2 HKGLAX

WHEN HKG GIVES YOU 3 SETS OF WINDS

FOR THE DIFERENT PARTS OF RWY

AND YOU ARE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT

TAILWIND COMPONENT...HOW DO YOU

FIGURE IT OUT?

CHIDD STEVE MINECK

-----------------------------------------------------------[29/08/1997 10:56]

2 .N176UA RA B QUCH IABUA~

1UA2 HKGLAX

• MSG FROM 818 **

QTE

FI UA818/AN N189UA

DT DDL XXC 291048 M40A

- /C4 KIXLAX HAD TO

DEVIATE 30NM NORTH

OF 3700N 16300E TO

AVOID LARGE AREA OF

TRWS. RIDE WAS MOD

CHOP AT WORST.

UQTE

CHIDD STEVE MINECK

-----------------------------------------------------------[29/08/1997 13:04]

2 .N176UA 2B D 0101 -

SFO ROGER UAL2

3838N 16500E POSITION

REPORT

-----------------------------------------------------------[29/08/1997 13:27]

2 .N176UA 2B E 0101 -

SFO ROGER UAL2

4000N 17000E POSITION

REPORT

-----------------------------------------------------------[29/08/1997 15:15]

2 .N176UA 2B G 0101 -

SFO ROGER UAL2

4500N 17000W POSITION

REPORT

-----------------------------------------------------------[29/08/1997 15:47]

2 .N176UA RA H QUCH IARUA~

1UA2 HKGLAX

. . . . . . . . . . . .

. C O M I N G S O O N.

. TO A PRINTER .

. NEAR YOU .

. R E D I S P A T C H .

. T O L A X .

. .

. . . . . . . . . . .

-----------------------------------------------------------[29/08/1997 15:53]

2 .N176UA C1 J .CHI ARUA 2

91552/MIT

AGM

AN N176UA

- /UA2 HKGLAX

UAL 2-27 PN 8676

RELEASED FROM 43N140W TO LAX VIA FLT PLAN ROUTE

TIME 2:28 BURNOUT: 42.6 MIN FUEL AT RDSP FIX 61.9

FL 370 ALTERNATE ONT

-----------------------------------------------------------[29/08/1997 17:01]

2 .N176UA 2A L 0101 -

SFO ROGER UAL2

4500N 15000W POSITION

REPORT. MONITOR SFO

ARINC NOW ON 5547/11282.

REQUEST ACKNOWLEDGE.

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