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B737-800 first officer reported receiving a RA shortly after takeoff from jfk from a small aircraft about 500 ft above them.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1281568 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201507 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | JFK.Airport |
| State Reference | NY |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | IMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | B737-800 |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Climb |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Aircraft 2 | |
| Make Model Name | Cirrus Aircraft Undifferentiated |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Cruise |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | First Officer |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | ATC Issue All Types Conflict Airborne Conflict Deviation - Altitude Excursion From Assigned Altitude |
Narrative:
After takeoff runway 13R at jfk; heading 070; leveling at 8000 feet in IMC conditions; we received a traffic alert from ny TRACON of a cirrus 12 o/clock westbound at 8500 feet. We were IMC in about a 500 foot thick cloud layer. Immediately afterwards TCAS issued a 'descend; descend' and a rapid descent to approx. 7200 feet was done as the other aircraft passed right over us (targets on TCAS merged) with TCAS indicating the other target approx. 1000 feet above us. After TCAS conflict cleared we continued our climb uneventfully. Since we were IMC we never visually saw the other aircraft.ATC should have vectored us 10 degrees left or right; instead of head-on; or; had us level off at 7000 ft instead of 8000 ft; a mere 500 ft below oncoming VFR traffic.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: B737-800 First Officer reported receiving a RA shortly after takeoff from JFK from a small aircraft about 500 FT above them.
Narrative: After takeoff Runway 13R at JFK; heading 070; leveling at 8000 feet in IMC conditions; we received a traffic alert from NY TRACON of a Cirrus 12 o/clock westbound at 8500 feet. We were IMC in about a 500 foot thick cloud layer. Immediately afterwards TCAS issued a 'descend; descend' and a rapid descent to approx. 7200 feet was done as the other aircraft passed right over us (targets on TCAS merged) with TCAS indicating the other target approx. 1000 feet above us. After TCAS conflict cleared we continued our climb uneventfully. Since we were IMC we never visually saw the other aircraft.ATC should have vectored us 10 degrees left or right; instead of head-on; or; had us level off at 7000 FT instead of 8000 FT; a mere 500 FT below oncoming VFR traffic.
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.