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Attributes | |
ACN | 1612226 |
Time | |
Date | 201901 |
Local Time Of Day | 1801-2400 |
Place | |
Locale Reference | OAK.Airport |
State Reference | CA |
Environment | |
Flight Conditions | VMC |
Light | Daylight |
Aircraft 1 | |
Make Model Name | Small Aircraft Low Wing 1 Eng Retractable Gear |
Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
Flight Phase | Descent |
Route In Use | Vectors |
Flight Plan | VFR |
Aircraft 2 | |
Make Model Name | Commercial Fixed Wing |
Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
Person 1 | |
Function | Pilot Flying Single Pilot |
Qualification | Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Instrument |
Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 3 Flight Crew Total 487 Flight Crew Type 155 |
Events | |
Anomaly | ATC Issue All Types Conflict NMAC |
Miss Distance | Horizontal 0 Vertical 200 |
Narrative:
I was coming back from ZZZ on an oakland transition through class charlie airspace. I was given an instruction to fly from coliseum to the 30 numbers of oak at 2000 feet as instructed. I passed over the coliseum and turned right to 30. Right before the handoff from north tower to south tower - an aircraft came direct head on at my 12 o'clock - passed underneath me way too close. Probably 100-200 feet. Scared the [expletive] out of me. I was never given a traffic advisory or any info about this aircraft; even though I was in the middle of the oak tower airspace pretty much right over the parallel runways. My guess is they were transitioning to the east; probably talking to the south tower - but they didn't give the north tower the memo. Very disconcerting. Ads-B wasn't too helpful there because I was right over the airport and there were a lot of targets (on ground and in air) - so it was hard to make any sense of traffic scope with the targets overlapping. I was about notify tower of the close encounter; but was then given another target at my 12 o'clock; but this time ahead of me and headed in the same direction over the bay. I focused on flying the airplane; and [continued to my destination] safely.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: GA pilot reported NMAC with unreported traffic on transition through Class C airspace.
Narrative: I was coming back from ZZZ on an Oakland transition through Class Charlie airspace. I was given an instruction to fly from Coliseum to the 30 numbers of OAK at 2000 feet as instructed. I passed over the coliseum and turned right to 30. Right before the handoff from north tower to south tower - an aircraft came direct head on at my 12 o'clock - passed underneath me way too close. Probably 100-200 feet. Scared the [expletive] out of me. I was never given a traffic advisory or any info about this aircraft; even though I was in the middle of the OAK tower airspace pretty much right over the parallel runways. My guess is they were transitioning to the east; probably talking to the south tower - but they didn't give the north tower the memo. Very disconcerting. ADS-B wasn't too helpful there because I was right over the airport and there were a lot of targets (on ground and in air) - so it was hard to make any sense of traffic scope with the targets overlapping. I was about notify tower of the close encounter; but was then given another target at my 12 o'clock; but this time ahead of me and headed in the same direction over the Bay. I focused on flying the airplane; and [continued to my destination] safely.
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.