Crj-900 flight crew reported receiving a low altitude alert from ATC on a visual approach to msy.

Attributes
ACN	1446780
Time
Date	201705
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	MSY.Airport
State Reference	LA
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Regional Jet 900 (CRJ900)
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Person 2
Function	First Officer Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Deviation - Altitude Excursion From Assigned Altitude Deviation - Procedural Clearance Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT

Narrative:

We were on a visual approach into new orleans rwy 2 backed up by ILS rwy 2. On downwind; tower gave a left turn to heading 110 and cleared for visual to follow aircraft on final. The clearance heading was well inside the final approach fix with a 90 degrees intercept to final approach. I needed to start the descent down because we were high to begin with. Tower gave low altitude alert and we made the correction with power adjustment. I believe we were at 1;100 ft between FAF povvi and yerub. I made correction and we were below GS while correcting and at one point with one white and three red on the PAPI. On short final 3/4 mile we were back on GS.next time advise ATC for vectors outside FAF and do not accept 90 intercept and try to get a vector to FAF with 30 degrees intercept.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: CRJ-900 flight crew reported receiving a low altitude alert from ATC on a visual approach to MSY.

Narrative: We were on a visual approach into New Orleans Rwy 2 backed up by ILS Rwy 2. On downwind; Tower gave a left turn to heading 110 and cleared for visual to follow aircraft on final. The clearance heading was well inside the final approach fix with a 90 degrees intercept to final approach. I needed to start the descent down because we were high to begin with. Tower gave low altitude alert and we made the correction with power adjustment. I believe we were at 1;100 FT between FAF POVVI and YERUB. I made correction and we were below GS while correcting and at one point with one white and three red on the PAPI. On short final 3/4 mile we were back on GS.Next time advise ATC for vectors outside FAF and do not accept 90 intercept and try to get a vector to FAF with 30 degrees intercept.

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