Air carrier on final to ord during simultaneous approach procedures to parallel runways experienced ...

Narrative:

Chicago approach was giving us radar vectors for runway 28 in ord. Our last clearance was on base leg. Fly heading 360 descend and maintain 2500'. The controller apparently forgot to turn us to join the localizer. The last clearance he gave left us in a steep descent toward parallel traffic on runway 27L. We realized he was not going to issue a turn as we were approaching localizer intercept and immediately called ATC requesting a turn or visual approach. We immediately turned to rejoin the runway 28 approach course and slowed our descent. We saw the parallel traffic on TCAS and then received a TA. The controller was very apologetic for his mistake and apologized twice more before handing us off to tower. Cause; ATC forgot about us.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air Carrier on final to ORD during simultaneous approach procedures to parallel runways experienced a conflict identified by the Controller as his/her error.

Narrative: Chicago Approach was giving us RADAR vectors for Runway 28 in ORD. Our last clearance was on base leg. Fly heading 360 descend and maintain 2500'. The controller apparently forgot to turn us to join the localizer. The last clearance he gave left us in a steep descent toward parallel traffic on Runway 27L. We realized he was not going to issue a turn as we were approaching localizer intercept and immediately called ATC requesting a turn or Visual Approach. We immediately turned to rejoin the Runway 28 approach course and slowed our descent. We saw the parallel traffic on TCAS and then received a TA. The controller was very apologetic for his mistake and apologized twice more before handing us off to tower. Cause; ATC forgot about us.

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	979732
Time
Date	201111
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	C90.TRACON
State Reference	IL
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	EMB ERJ 145 ER&LR
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Conflict Airborne Conflict

Air carrier on final to ord during simultaneous approach procedures to parallel runways experienced a conflict identified by the controller as his/her error.