Narrative:

On the sadde arrival we were given 'cross smo at 7;000; depart heading 070' approaching smo we got a 'traffic' advisory and saw an rj ahead and well below crossing in front north bound; well de-conflicted. After we had passed; (and what I perceived as us separating) we got the red box on the pfd and a command to climb. I disconnected the autopilot; started to pitch up; and almost as soon as the RA advisory popped up; it then cleared. The whole even was maybe 2 seconds; and we resumed the descent to 7;000.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A B737 First Officer reported taking evasive action to a TCAS TRAFFIC advisory from a departing jet at 7;000 FT near SMO on the LAX SADDE STAR.

Narrative: On the SADDE arrival we were given 'cross SMO at 7;000; depart heading 070' Approaching SMO we got a 'traffic' advisory and saw an RJ ahead and well below crossing in front north bound; well de-conflicted. After we had passed; (and what I perceived as us separating) we got the red box on the PFD and a command to climb. I disconnected the autopilot; started to pitch up; and almost as soon as the RA advisory popped up; it then cleared. The whole even was maybe 2 seconds; and we resumed the descent to 7;000.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site 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.