The sba runway edge lights were selected on; but a flight crew questioned the light's status. After ...

Narrative:

We were on a left base to landing and we got the airport field in sight. The lights at the airport seem to be all on. When we were landing it seemed as if it was off; but still had complete sight of the runway. We continued and landed. Later as we were taxiing to the gate we advised tower and they said that something was wrong with the runway edge lights and did not come on during our landing. It was a great and safe landing and nothing happened. All the lights on the airport seemed to be working so it was hard to tell from our angle whether or not the runway edge lights were on.we could suggest to tower to check their system to assure all lights are properly working.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: The SBA runway edge lights were selected ON; but a flight crew questioned the light's status. After landing the crew was advised that the lights were selected and indicated ON; but in fact were not operational.

Narrative: We were on a left base to landing and we got the airport field in sight. The lights at the airport seem to be all on. When we were landing it seemed as if it was off; but still had complete sight of the runway. We continued and landed. Later as we were taxiing to the gate we advised tower and they said that something was wrong with the runway edge lights and did not come on during our landing. It was a great and safe landing and nothing happened. All the lights on the airport seemed to be working so it was hard to tell from our angle whether or not the runway edge lights were on.We could suggest to Tower to check their system to assure all lights are properly working.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1122910
Time
Date	201310
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	SBA.Airport
State Reference	CA
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Dusk
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Small Transport Low Wing 2 Turboprop Eng
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Landing
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	First Officer Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

The sba runway edge lights were selected on; but a flight crew questioned the light's status. After landing the crew was advised that the lights were selected and indicated on; but in fact were not operational.