F/a 18 pilot reported a near-midair-collision with two other F/a 18's due to lost communication with...

Attributes
ACN	1526239
Time
Date	201803
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	NLC.TRACON
State Reference	CA
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	F/A 18 Hornet/Super Hornet
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Final Approach
Route In Use	Vectors
Flight Plan	IFR
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	F/A 18 Hornet/Super Hornet
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Climb
Component
Aircraft Component	Air/Ground Communication
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Air Traffic Control Fully Certified Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Flight Instructor
Experience	Air Traffic Control Military 11 Flight Crew Last 90 Days 45 Flight Crew Total 1600 Flight Crew Type 1400
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Conflict NMAC Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Miss Distance	Horizontal 400

Narrative:

On PAR final; lost comm with PAR final controller. Pilot was VMC and proceeded visually while attempting to contact approach on local button. Pilot was able to contact TRACON and received a frantic climb straight ahead to 1.8K. Pilot initially proceeded with visual approach for 5 seconds while trying to get clearance to proceed with the visual approach. Pilot then executed climbout as instructed by approach and was passed by a flight of 2 super hornets in the overhead break. Pass was estimated to be 400 feet. Lost comm pilot was not initially visual of the break traffic. Pilot then switched tower frequency and proceeded to land via the visual pattern with no incident.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: F/A 18 pilot reported a near-midair-collision with two other F/A 18's due to lost communication with ATC.

Narrative: On PAR final; lost comm with PAR final controller. Pilot was VMC and proceeded visually while attempting to contact approach on local button. Pilot was able to contact TRACON and received a frantic climb straight ahead to 1.8K. Pilot initially proceeded with visual approach for 5 seconds while trying to get clearance to proceed with the visual approach. Pilot then executed climbout as instructed by approach and was passed by a flight of 2 super hornets in the overhead break. Pass was estimated to be 400 feet. Lost comm pilot was not initially visual of the break traffic. Pilot then switched tower frequency and proceeded to land via the visual pattern with no incident.

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.

F/a 18 pilot reported a near-midair-collision with two other F/a 18's due to lost communication with ATC.