Large turbo jet crew descended early on a visual approach triggering a low altitude alert from ATC.

Attributes
ACN	1403850
Time
Date	201611
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	DEN.Airport
State Reference	CO
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B737 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Final Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 120 Flight Crew Type 8652
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT

Narrative:

At 9;000 feet; den approach cleared us for a visual to 35R. We set 7;000 in the MCP for the final approach fix; and started down. Reaching 7;000 approach issued a low altitude warning. We confirmed we had the field in sight and descended on the glide slope for a normal landing.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Large turbo jet crew descended early on a visual approach triggering a low altitude alert from ATC.

Narrative: At 9;000 feet; DEN Approach cleared us for a visual to 35R. We set 7;000 in the MCP for the final approach fix; and started down. Reaching 7;000 Approach issued a low altitude warning. We confirmed we had the field in sight and descended on the glide slope for a normal landing.

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.