Air carrier first officer experiences a near midair collision with a helicopter at 700 feet AGL on f...

Narrative:

We where on a visual approach to runway 23; and coupled to the ILS. About 700 feet AGL; we got a TA. I looked at the pfd; and saw a traffic advisory with it showing the aircraft +100 feet just off to our right. I look out to the right and see a helicopter just above us flying across our path. I'm on the glide path; I continue down and at the same rate as I see the helicopter is maintaining his altitude. Being so low to the ground I didn't want to increase my descent rate; especially knowing we would pass under the helicopter. As we pass under the TCAS was showing him at + 200 feet. We land; and the tower didn't say anything about it. The tower never even called the traffic out in the first place. After we got to the gate the captain called the tower. The tower told him the helicopter was supposed to pass behind us. The captain informed them he passed in front and above us; and that the tower never informed us of the helicopter in the first place.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air Carrier First Officer experiences a NMAC with a helicopter at 700 feet AGL on final approach. The traffic was not called out by the Tower; but the helicopter had been instructed to pass behind the reporters' aircraft.

Narrative: We where on a visual approach to runway 23; and coupled to the ILS. About 700 feet AGL; we got a TA. I looked at the PFD; and saw a traffic advisory with it showing the aircraft +100 feet just off to our right. I look out to the right and see a helicopter just above us flying across our path. I'm on the glide path; I continue down and at the same rate as I see the helicopter is maintaining his altitude. Being so low to the ground I didn't want to increase my descent rate; especially knowing we would pass under the helicopter. As we pass under the TCAS was showing him at + 200 feet. We land; and the tower didn't say anything about it. The tower never even called the traffic out in the first place. After we got to the gate the Captain called the tower. The tower told him the helicopter was supposed to pass behind us. The captain informed them he passed in front and above us; and that the tower never informed us of the helicopter in the first place.

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.

Attributes
ACN	1264002
Time
Date	201505
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	CLT.Airport
State Reference	NC
Environment
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Large Transport
Flight Phase	Landing
Flight Plan	IFR
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	Helicopter
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial
Events
Anomaly	Conflict NMAC

Air carrier first officer experiences a near midair collision with a helicopter at 700 feet AGL on final approach. The traffic was not called out by the tower; but the helicopter had been instructed to pass behind the reporters' aircraft.