NASA · Aviation Safety Reporting System
A Flight Instructor reported a NMAC after turning to a heading assigned by the Tower.
What is ASRS?
The Aviation Safety Reporting System is NASA's voluntary, confidential, non- punitive incident-reporting system, established 1976. Pilots, controllers, dispatchers, and maintenance technicians file reports describing safety- relevant events. NASA de-identifies every report before adding it to the public database. Reports are not investigated by NASA, the FAA, or the NTSB — they represent the reporter's perspective.
Pilot narrative
Verbatim from the de-identified NASA record. First-person account by the
reporter. NASA strips identifying details (names, company, specific time);
anonymization placeholders are ZZZ,
X, Y.
Today Piper Warrior was on final for Runway XX and ATC Tower requested our aircraft to turn right 20 degrees off the final path. Other aircraft on a longer final were also directed to deviate to some degree. Few seconds after ATC instructed Aircraft X to turn left to 190. As my student turned left to 190 we saw a head on collision course with a Citation aircraft which had been given preference to land over us and we continued north bound to avoid the traffic and the wake turbulence. To me it felt like a very close call. Nothing more happened and after we were screamed at and were told to fly east bound and rejoin after few more vectors were given. Please feel free to contact me at any time.
NASA classification — Anomalies
- ATC Issue
- Conflict
NASA classification — Assessments
- Contributing Factors / Situations
- Environment - Non Weather Related · Human Factors · Procedure
- Primary Problem
- Human Factors
ASRS reports are voluntarily submitted, de-identified by NASA, and represent the reporter's perspective. The presence of reports on a topic cannot be used to infer prevalence in the National Airspace System. The authoritative source is the NASA ASRS Database Online at asrs.arc.nasa.gov ↗.