Ce-560XL flight crew reported they had to 'aggressively maneuver' to avoid a midair collision with u...

Narrative:

While over UUU airport at 2;000 feet and 200 knots we were on a heading of 090 degrees assigned by pvd departure. I was the pilot flying and visually saw 2 parachutes; with jumpers attached. We were approximately less than half a mile from them. Same altitude as our aircraft. We were basically coming head on. I disconnected the autopilot and took an evasive right hand turn to avoid the jumpers. We asked pvd about jumping in the area over UUU airport and they said they did not have any info about jumping over that airport. We asked the next pvd controller and were told the same thing. There were no notams about jumpers over UUU. When we landed I called the airport manager. He spoke with the jump plane and he said that the jump plane was talking to pvd and that pvd had even warned the jump plane about us!!! We were never warned or told by pvd of any jumpers nearby.pvd departure was either confused or did not tell us. We had a near miss with jumpers and it was too close. Better ATC communications would be much safer.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: CE-560XL flight crew reported they had to 'aggressively maneuver' to avoid a midair collision with unreported skydivers in the vicinity of UUU airport.

Narrative: While over UUU airport at 2;000 feet and 200 knots we were on a heading of 090 degrees assigned by PVD departure. I was the pilot flying and visually saw 2 parachutes; with jumpers attached. We were approximately less than half a mile from them. Same altitude as our aircraft. We were basically coming head on. I disconnected the autopilot and took an evasive right hand turn to avoid the jumpers. We asked PVD about jumping in the area over UUU airport and they said they did not have any info about jumping over that airport. We asked the next PVD controller and were told the same thing. There were no NOTAMs about jumpers over UUU. When we landed I called the airport manager. He spoke with the jump plane and he said that the jump plane was talking to PVD and that PVD had even warned the jump plane about us!!! We were never warned or told by PVD of any jumpers nearby.PVD Departure was either confused or did not tell us. We had a near miss with jumpers and it was too close. Better ATC communications would be much safer.

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	1293766
Time
Date	201509
Local Time Of Day	0001-0600
Place
Locale Reference	PVD.TRACON
State Reference	RI
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Citation Excel (C560XL)
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 135
Flight Phase	Cruise
Route In Use	Vectors
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Person 2
Function	First Officer Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Inflight Event / Encounter Other / Unknown

Ce-560XL flight crew reported they had to 'aggressively maneuver' to avoid a midair collision with unreported skydivers in the vicinity of UUU airport.