Air carrier first officer spotted a drone near their altitude of 4000 feet while on vectors to lga r...

Attributes
ACN	1344781
Time
Date	201604
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	LGA.Airport
State Reference	NY
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Medium Large Transport Low Wing 2 Turbojet Eng
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Route In Use	Vectors
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	First Officer Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Conflict Airborne Conflict
Miss Distance	Horizontal 2000 Vertical 0

Narrative:

While being vectored to the localizer 31 at lga in the vicinity of the dials intersection; I spotted a drone operating near us. We were at 4000 ft MSL headed northeast to overfly lga. The drone appeared to be a white quadcopter operating at or slightly below our altitude approximately 2000 ft off our right side heading west. No evasive action was required by us; we continued on our assigned heading and altitude and reported the sighting to ATC. The fbi has since followed up with me.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air carrier First Officer spotted a drone near their altitude of 4000 feet while on vectors to LGA Runway 31 near DIALS intersection. No evasive action was required.

Narrative: While being vectored to the LOC 31 at LGA in the vicinity of the DIALS intersection; I spotted a drone operating near us. We were at 4000 ft MSL headed NE to overfly LGA. The drone appeared to be a white quadcopter operating at or slightly below our altitude approximately 2000 ft off our right side heading west. No evasive action was required by us; we continued on our assigned heading and altitude and reported the sighting to ATC. The FBI has since followed up with me.

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.

Air carrier first officer spotted a drone near their altitude of 4000 feet while on vectors to lga runway 31 near dials intersection. No evasive action was required.