Air carrier crew on approach to rsw had several drones pass within 200-300 feet.

Attributes
ACN	1319058
Time
Date	201512
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	RSW.Airport
State Reference	FL
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Large Transport Low Wing 2 Turbojet Eng
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Final Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	UAV - Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Cruise
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 104
Events
Anomaly	Conflict NMAC Inflight Event / Encounter Object
Miss Distance	Horizontal 200

Narrative:

As first officer was hand flying and intercepting the final approach course; he alerted me to something he thought was a drone. I was trying to identify something slightly right of the nose and he drew my attention back to the left as two quad copter drones passed right to left off the nose and passed the left wingtip. The drones had a white base/bottom with a dark/black rotor area. We estimate the distance from us was between 200-300 feet. I immediately notified tower and he alerted the aircraft behind us to the threat. After discussing the event on the ground; we realized that the object on the right was also likely a third drone. I notified ground control that we believed there were likely three drones and he stated the aircraft following us had also seen the drones.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air carrier crew on approach to RSW had several drones pass within 200-300 feet.

Narrative: As First Officer was hand flying and intercepting the final approach course; he alerted me to something he thought was a drone. I was trying to identify something slightly right of the nose and he drew my attention back to the left as two quad copter drones passed right to left off the nose and passed the left wingtip. The drones had a white base/bottom with a dark/black rotor area. We estimate the distance from us was between 200-300 feet. I immediately notified tower and he alerted the aircraft behind us to the threat. After discussing the event on the ground; we realized that the object on the right was also likely a third drone. I notified ground control that we believed there were likely three drones and he stated the aircraft following us had also seen the drones.

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.