A corporate helicopter pilot reported a near midair collision while flying in socal airspace.

Attributes
ACN	1390139
Time
Date	201609
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	SMO.Airport
State Reference	CA
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Helicopter
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Cruise
Flight Plan	None
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	Small Aircraft Low Wing 1 Eng Retractable Gear
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Instrument
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 100 Flight Crew Total 650 Flight Crew Type 250
Events
Anomaly	Conflict NMAC
Miss Distance	Horizontal 300 Vertical 0

Narrative:

Flight to smo. Hand off from [nearby tower controller] occurred before leaving airspace to smo; contacted smo immediately after. Smo gave observed traffic. They called for two traffics; giving bearing and altitude. I saw one traffic not the other; mentioned I would pass behind one. Then a low level aircraft come across my nose from right to left.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A corporate helicopter pilot reported a NMAC while flying in SOCAL airspace.

Narrative: Flight to SMO. Hand off from [nearby Tower Controller] occurred before leaving airspace to SMO; contacted SMO immediately after. SMO gave observed traffic. They called for two traffics; giving bearing and altitude. I saw one traffic not the other; mentioned I would pass behind one. Then a low level aircraft come across my nose from right to left.

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.