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Emb-145 flight crew reported overshooting a crossing altitude when a late runway change caused confusion and distraction.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1323497 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201601 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | I90.TRACON |
| State Reference | TX |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | EMB ERJ 145 ER/LR |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Initial Approach |
| Route In Use | STAR ZEEKK1 |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Captain Pilot Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Person 2 | |
| Function | Pilot Not Flying First Officer |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Altitude Excursion From Assigned Altitude Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Procedural Clearance |
Narrative:
Was on the zeekk arrival into iah. Was told by approach to expect 26R which we were set up for. We were then switched to 26L. I asked the first officer to put 26L into the FMS. We were given a heading & told to join localizer 26L and had descended to 6;000 feet. I was looking at the surface tablet at the fixes for the transition to 26L and saw that they did not match with where we should be for the altitude. I had seen the first officer input the new runway but it did not in fact get changed to new runway so we were 2;000 feet off. At that point ATC queried us about our altitude and we told him that we were at 6;000 feet. He issued the approach clearance to 26L based on our current altitude of 6;000 feet.rushed by runway change and did not accomplish proper cross check.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: EMB-145 flight crew reported overshooting a crossing altitude when a late runway change caused confusion and distraction.
Narrative: Was on the ZEEKK arrival into IAH. Was told by approach to expect 26R which we were set up for. We were then switched to 26L. I asked the first officer to put 26L into the FMS. We were given a heading & told to join localizer 26L and had descended to 6;000 feet. I was looking at the Surface tablet at the fixes for the transition to 26L and saw that they did not match with where we should be for the altitude. I had seen the first officer input the new runway but it did not in fact get changed to new runway so we were 2;000 feet off. At that point ATC queried us about our altitude and we told him that we were at 6;000 feet. He issued the approach clearance to 26L based on our current altitude of 6;000 feet.Rushed by runway change and did not accomplish proper cross check.
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.