<< >> NASA ASRS Report 954340, June 2011

An air carrier crew on arrival was told by ATC to declare a weather emergency if they needed to deviate around weather and not accept ATC's vectors. An emergency was declared and terminated when they cleared weather.

Attributes
ACN	954340
Time
Date	201106
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.TRACON
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	IMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Commercial Fixed Wing
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Descent
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 240 Flight Crew Total 22000 Flight Crew Type 3000
Person 2
Function	First Officer Pilot Flying
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 240 Flight Crew Total 19500 Flight Crew Type 3000
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence

Narrative:

[We were] being vectored for spacing runway 19R. Controller gave us a right turn to the west. We ask for and received ten more degrees right to avoid weather. Controller cleared us left turn direct an arrival fix. I replied 'unable; due weather' as there was a rain shower with intense red radar return in between our position and that fix. Controller asked 'are you declaring a weather emergency'. I replied in the affirmative. He asked my intentions. 'To fly 6 miles on present heading and make a left turn to the cleared fix' I replied. He handed us off to another sector and we terminated emergency. We landed without further incident. An aircraft behind our flight also refused vector into storm.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An air carrier crew on arrival was told by ATC to declare a weather emergency if they needed to deviate around weather and not accept ATC's vectors. An emergency was declared and terminated when they cleared weather.

Narrative: [We were] being vectored for spacing Runway 19R. Controller gave us a right turn to the west. We ask for and received ten more degrees right to avoid weather. Controller cleared us left turn direct an arrival fix. I replied 'unable; due weather' as there was a rain shower with intense red radar return in between our position and that fix. Controller asked 'are you declaring a weather emergency'. I replied in the affirmative. He asked my intentions. 'To fly 6 miles on present heading and make a left turn to the cleared fix' I replied. He handed us off to another sector and we terminated emergency. We landed without further incident. An aircraft behind our flight also refused vector into storm.

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.