An air carrier first officer reported a go-around from 300 ft on approach to lga's runway 22 because...

Narrative:

We were cleared for the visual to runway 22 at lga. The aircraft was configured fully. Approximately three miles out; we were cleared to land number one for the runway. At approximately a 1/4 mile final or around 300 ft tower advised us that air carrier Y would be departing left to right on runway 31. This took myself and the captain by surprise as were were short final and couldn't fathom that they were clearing an aircraft for takeoff and immediately saw this as a conflict. After we were able to make a visual that in fact they had cleared an airplane for takeoff; the first officer (flying pilot) immediately initiated a go-around with a hard left climbing turn to avoid potential collision. The go -around was conducted with greater than standard bank in order to prevent flying into the departure path of the air carrier Y. We were climbed to 2;000 with no RA's noted. We were then vectored back to the ILS 22 and landed without incident. The departure controller vectoring acknowledged and commented on the close proximity to the departing aircraft when we checked back in for the second approach. Nothing said by the tower. Everything always occurs on day 4!

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An air carrier First Officer reported a go-around from 300 FT on approach to LGA's Runway 22 because Tower released an aircraft for takeoff on Runway 31 that would conflict with them during landing.

Narrative: We were cleared for the visual to Runway 22 at LGA. The aircraft was configured fully. Approximately three miles out; we were cleared to land number one for the runway. At approximately a 1/4 mile final or around 300 FT Tower advised us that Air Carrier Y would be departing left to right on Runway 31. This took myself and the Captain by surprise as were were short final and couldn't fathom that they were clearing an aircraft for takeoff and immediately saw this as a conflict. After we were able to make a visual that in fact they had cleared an airplane for takeoff; the First Officer (flying pilot) immediately initiated a go-around with a hard left climbing turn to avoid potential collision. The go -around was conducted with greater than standard bank in order to prevent flying into the departure path of the Air Carrier Y. We were climbed to 2;000 with no RA's noted. We were then vectored back to the ILS 22 and landed without incident. The Departure Controller vectoring acknowledged and commented on the close proximity to the departing aircraft when we checked back in for the second approach. Nothing said by the Tower. Everything always occurs on day 4!

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	903490
Time
Date	201007
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	LGA.Airport
State Reference	NY
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Medium Transport Low Wing 2 Turbojet Eng
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Final Approach
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	Light Transport Low Wing 2 Turboprop Eng
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Takeoff
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	First Officer Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial
Events
Anomaly	Conflict Ground Conflict Critical Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

An air carrier first officer reported a go-around from 300 ft on approach to lga's runway 22 because tower released an aircraft for takeoff on runway 31 that would conflict with them during landing.