An E140 flight crew on an inbound vector suffered a loss of separation with an outbound embraer clea...

Attributes
ACN	989308
Time
Date	201201
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	AMA.Airport
State Reference	TX
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	EMB ERJ 140 ER/LR
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Descent
Flight Plan	IFR
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	Embraer Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Climb
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	First Officer Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial
Person 2
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Conflict Airborne Conflict
Miss Distance	Horizontal 5000 Vertical 800

Narrative:

I was the pilot not flying while on the descent and flying a heading. ATC notified us that there would be an opposite direction embraer flying through our altitude; and asked if we had it in sight at 12 o'clock. The captain and I noticed a bright light in the distance; but it appeared to not be moving. So; we called negative on the traffic. Monitoring TCAS; we began to watch for traffic climbing towards our route of flight. ATC frantically asked us if we had the traffic. At that time we had the traffic in sight and began a right turn and received a 'climb; climb' RA. I notified ATC of the RA and that we were turning right of course. The other aircraft stated on the radio that they had an RA as well and were descending. Per the TCAS the closest we got was about 800 ft vertically and something less than a mile horizontally. ATC then assigned us a heading again and said to continue the descent to 8;000 and to contact approach.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An E140 flight crew on an inbound vector suffered a loss of separation with an outbound Embraer cleared to climb through their altitude.

Narrative: I was the pilot not flying while on the descent and flying a heading. ATC notified us that there would be an opposite direction Embraer flying through our altitude; and asked if we had it in sight at 12 o'clock. The Captain and I noticed a bright light in the distance; but it appeared to not be moving. So; we called negative on the traffic. Monitoring TCAS; we began to watch for traffic climbing towards our route of flight. ATC frantically asked us if we had the traffic. At that time we had the traffic in sight and began a right turn and received a 'Climb; Climb' RA. I notified ATC of the RA and that we were turning right of course. The other aircraft stated on the radio that they had an RA as well and were descending. Per the TCAS the closest we got was about 800 FT vertically and something less than a mile horizontally. ATC then assigned us a heading again and said to continue the descent to 8;000 and to contact Approach.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 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.

An E140 flight crew on an inbound vector suffered a loss of separation with an outbound embraer cleared to climb through their altitude.