NASA · Aviation Safety Reporting System
Air carrier flight crew received an obstacle alert while on approach to DCA airport. Flight crew did a go-around and landed uneventfully.
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.
First approach to Runway 19 LDA Z ended with missed approach due to weather at minimums. Vectored back again and at approximately 200 feet above MDA we received an obstacle alert. We went around and were vectored to Runway 1 ILS. Rest of flight normal. NOTE: Weather was at minimums and 40 knot corsswind. Three flights in front of us had also just gone missed. All considerations for missed approach were briefed prior and executed as briefed.
NASA classification — Anomalies
- Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural
- Inflight Event / Encounter
NASA classification — Assessments
- Contributing Factors / Situations
- Airport · Human Factors · Procedure · Weather
- Primary Problem
- Weather
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 ↗.