Originally Posted by
joepilot
This is normally a polar route, so they were probably in Magadan control airspace, which could put them closer to NRT than ANK, but in any case not over Alaska.
The flight was UA897 of the 19th (arrived in NRT on the 20th), it looks like the it flew right over ANC
NCA13 YESKA AMOTT NOSHO R220
The rest of the routing here:
FlightAware > United Air Lines #897 > 19-Feb-2010 > KIAD-RJAA
Saturday's flight is closer to polar routing tracking north of Barrow.
I never miss an opportunity to stop at the ABC, the debrief should be interesting.