<< >> NASA ASRS Report 1152386, February 2014

An arriving IFR air carrier just exiting IMC suffered a close encounter with a VFR cessna flying immediately below the cloud cover.

Attributes
ACN	1152386
Time
Date	201402
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.TRACON
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	Mixed
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Commercial Fixed Wing
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Descent
Flight Plan	IFR
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	Cessna Single Piston Undifferentiated or Other Model
Person 1
Function	Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 412
Person 2
Function	First Officer
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Conflict Airborne Conflict Deviation - Procedural FAR

Narrative:

[As we were] descending for landing while IMC; approach had just started talking to X; a VFR aircraft with no transponder. The VFR aircraft told ATC they were at 3;000 MSL. We were about to level off at 3;000 ft and broke out of the cloud base at around 3;100 ft. Just then we saw the VFR aircraft at our two o'clock; 1/2 mile co-altitude moving away on a northeast heading; we were headed west. The VFR aircraft told TRACON that a 'boeing just went by.'the VFR aircraft was just below the cloud base by only a small amount. We told tower that we had a near mid-air and would file a report.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An arriving IFR Air Carrier just exiting IMC suffered a close encounter with a VFR Cessna flying immediately below the cloud cover.

Narrative: [As we were] descending for landing while IMC; Approach had just started talking to X; a VFR aircraft with no transponder. The VFR aircraft told ATC they were at 3;000 MSL. We were about to level off at 3;000 FT and broke out of the cloud base at around 3;100 FT. Just then we saw the VFR aircraft at our two o'clock; 1/2 mile co-altitude moving away on a northeast heading; we were headed west. The VFR aircraft told TRACON that a 'Boeing just went by.'The VFR aircraft was just below the cloud base by only a small amount. We told Tower that we had a near mid-air and would file a report.

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.