<< >> NASA ASRS Report 1393301, October 2016

Crj-200 flight crew on approach to sba reported a near midair collision with a helicopter departing the airport. They were not alerted to the conflict by ATC.

Attributes
ACN	1393301
Time
Date	201610
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	SBA.Airport
State Reference	CA
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Regional Jet 200 ER/LR (CRJ200)
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	Helicopter
Flight Phase	Takeoff
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Person 2
Function	Pilot Not Flying First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Conflict NMAC

Narrative:

While on final approach to landing runway; noted a helicopter that had departed was on a collision course with our aircraft. We received a TCAS traffic advisory (TA) and took the necessary evasive maneuvers to avoid collision and were able to re-stabilize for a safe landing. There was no ATC warning of the traffic conflict.helicopter was departing across an active landing approach corridor. Better traffic separation.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: CRJ-200 flight crew on approach to SBA reported a NMAC with a helicopter departing the airport. They were not alerted to the conflict by ATC.

Narrative: While on final approach to landing runway; noted a helicopter that had departed was on a collision course with our aircraft. We received a TCAS Traffic Advisory (TA) and took the necessary evasive maneuvers to avoid collision and were able to re-stabilize for a safe landing. There was no ATC warning of the traffic conflict.Helicopter was departing across an active landing approach corridor. Better traffic separation.

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.