Air carrier flight crew on visual approach to bwi lines up on the wrong runway. Tower controller not...

Attributes
ACN	1329107
Time
Date	201602
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	BWI.Tower
State Reference	MD
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B737 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 164 Flight Crew Type 164
Person 2
Function	First Officer Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 242 Flight Crew Type 5000
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Track / Heading All Types

Narrative:

At 6;000 feet AGL; we called bwi in sight. Approach told us we needed to be below 4;000 feet to be cleared for the approach to 10. I was pilot monitoring. The pilot flying configured the aircraft to landing configuration to execute a faster descent. While descending; we were vectored off the arrival. We focused on the descent more than our bearing to the airport due to a clear and a million day. We knew the airport was to our left. We were cleared for the visual to runway 10. We turned toward the runway at bwi that we saw. As we got closer to bwi; we noticed the localizer wouldn't capture. As we were beginning discussion about this; approach switched us to tower. While trying to figure out why our navigation aids were off; tower notified us immediately we were lined up for runway 15. We were approximately six miles out. He asked if we would like 15R instead and cleared us to land. Bwi tower was amazing and professional in coming up with a solution fast. Our other option was to go-around (which we almost did; but tower rectified the situation so fast). We landed 15R with no further issue.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air Carrier flight crew on visual approach to BWI lines up on the wrong runway. Tower Controller notifies crew of this and offers them that runway which the crew accepts for landing.

Narrative: At 6;000 feet AGL; we called BWI in sight. Approach told us we needed to be below 4;000 feet to be cleared for the approach to 10. I was Pilot Monitoring. The Pilot Flying configured the aircraft to landing configuration to execute a faster descent. While descending; we were vectored off the arrival. We focused on the descent more than our bearing to the airport due to a clear and a million day. We knew the airport was to our left. We were cleared for the visual to Runway 10. We turned toward the runway at BWI that we saw. As we got closer to BWI; we noticed the LOC wouldn't capture. As we were beginning discussion about this; Approach switched us to Tower. While trying to figure out why our NAV aids were off; Tower notified us immediately we were lined up for Runway 15. We were approximately six miles out. He asked if we would like 15R instead and cleared us to land. BWI Tower was amazing and professional in coming up with a solution fast. Our other option was to go-around (which we almost did; but Tower rectified the situation so fast). We landed 15R with no further issue.

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.

Air carrier flight crew on visual approach to bwi lines up on the wrong runway. Tower controller notifies crew of this and offers them that runway which the crew accepts for landing.