CRJ200 first officer reports being cleared to 5000 ft and to expedite through 11000 for traffic. Tra...

Narrative:

We were on ATC cleared flight path direct fay at 14;000 ft with a clearance to descend to 5;000 ft; and expedite through 11;000 ft for traffic. The traffic was an opposite direction plane with sky divers that was at either 11;000 ft or 11;500 ft. We overheard the jump plane; which was also on frequency; and they were informing ATC of their intention to drop their sky divers. ATC instructed them to delay for crossing traffic. The jump plane asked ATC 'can that plane not take a turn so we can drop' to which we heard no ATC reply. At that point; we asked ATC if they wanted us to turn; but before they could reply the pilot of the other aircraft announced that their jumpers were away. We had already expedited our descent through 11;000 ft as instructed; and were at 10;000 ft momentarily slowing to 250 KTS when we got the other aircraft in sight. After spotting the plane we then spotted the skydivers visually and turned immediately away from their drop path. We informed ATC that we were turning and they acknowledged immediately with an approval of our turn to the south. We heard nothing else from the other aircraft on the frequency before being handed off to the next controller.our event occurred because of the other aircraft not wanting to wait for us to clear the area before dropping the skydivers even after being notified by ATC that we would be in the area; causing us to temporarily deviate from our course to stay clear of the sky divers path.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: CRJ200 First Officer reports being cleared to 5000 FT and to expedite through 11000 for traffic. Traffic turned out to be a jump plane who was asked by ATC to hold their drop until traffic passed but released anyway. The CRJ crew took evasive action.

Narrative: We were on ATC cleared flight path direct FAY at 14;000 FT with a clearance to descend to 5;000 FT; and expedite through 11;000 FT for traffic. The traffic was an opposite direction plane with sky divers that was at either 11;000 FT or 11;500 FT. We overheard the jump plane; which was also on frequency; and they were informing ATC of their intention to drop their sky divers. ATC instructed them to delay for crossing traffic. The jump plane asked ATC 'can that plane not take a turn so we can drop' to which we heard no ATC reply. At that point; we asked ATC if they wanted us to turn; but before they could reply the pilot of the other aircraft announced that their jumpers were away. We had already expedited our descent through 11;000 FT as instructed; and were at 10;000 FT momentarily slowing to 250 KTS when we got the other aircraft in sight. After spotting the plane we then spotted the skydivers visually and turned immediately away from their drop path. We informed ATC that we were turning and they acknowledged immediately with an approval of our turn to the south. We heard nothing else from the other aircraft on the frequency before being handed off to the next Controller.Our event occurred because of the other aircraft not wanting to wait for us to clear the area before dropping the skydivers even after being notified by ATC that we would be in the area; causing us to temporarily deviate from our course to stay clear of the sky divers path.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.

Attributes
ACN	850500
Time
Date	200909
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	FAY.Airport
State Reference	NC
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Regional Jet 200 ER/LR (CRJ200)
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Descent
Route In Use	Direct
Flight Plan	IFR
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	Any Unknown or Unlisted Aircraft Manufacturer
Operating Under FAR Part	Other 105
Flight Phase	Cruise
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial
Events
Anomaly	Conflict Airborne Conflict Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Procedural FAR Inflight Event / Encounter Other / Unknown

CRJ200 first officer reports being cleared to 5000 ft and to expedite through 11000 for traffic. Traffic turned out to be a jump plane who was asked by ATC to hold their drop until traffic passed but released anyway. The crj crew took evasive action.