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The pilot of an embraer 175 aircraft reported a very close encounter with an unmanned aerial vehicle (uav); while conducting an approach to san. Though no evasive action was required; the event was immediately reported to air traffic control.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1536555 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201804 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | SAN.Airport |
| State Reference | CA |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | EMB ERJ 170/175 ER/LR |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Initial Approach |
| Route In Use | Visual Approach |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Captain Pilot Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Conflict Airborne Conflict Deviation - Procedural FAR Inflight Event / Encounter Other / Unknown |
| Miss Distance | Vertical 20 |
Narrative:
Drone spotted at 5000 MSL off right wing less than 20 foot clearance. We were on visual approach clearance following approach guidance. First officer was pilot monitoring and spotted it at 1:00 position with no time to notify me as it passed off our right wing. I never saw the object which he described as teal in color and had a flashing red strobe on top. We notified ATC and they began vectoring the traffic behind us off course so as to not have the same encounter.require all drones to have transponder and file flight plans when more than 500 AGL.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: The pilot of an Embraer 175 aircraft reported a very close encounter with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV); while conducting an approach to SAN. Though no evasive action was required; the event was immediately reported to Air Traffic Control.
Narrative: Drone spotted at 5000 MSL off right wing less than 20 foot clearance. We were on visual approach clearance following approach guidance. First Officer was pilot monitoring and spotted it at 1:00 position with no time to notify me as it passed off our right wing. I never saw the object which he described as teal in color and had a flashing red strobe on top. We notified ATC and they began vectoring the traffic behind us off course so as to not have the same encounter.Require ALL drones to have transponder and file flight plans when more than 500 AGL.
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.