Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 210; Flight Crew Total 22000; Flight Crew Type 8000
Situational Awareness; Communication Breakdown; Distraction; Time Pressure
Conflict NMAC
Air Traffic Control Issued Advisory / Alert; Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
Environment - Non Weather Related; Procedure
Cleared for takeoff 15L turn right to 230. Single engine aircraft traffic in the area. We did not see the single engine aircraft until airborne. The RA went off telling us to climb more. I saw the aircraft and told the copilot to climb more as well. The Tower said something to the aircraft and he started a left turn. We came about within 400 FT horizontally and 200 FT vertically.
On Departure off of 15R IAH talking to Tower we were in a climbing right turn after takeoff to our assigned heading when we received an RA approximately 1;500 - 2;500 FT AGL. We complied with the RA Climb maneuver and when the Captain spotted the traffic it appeared to be no more than 300 FT from our aircraft. The TCAS is all that saved us from a collision with this single engine aircraft. We were never given any advisories from Tower. Our first awareness of this near midair was due to the TCAS. We told the Tower we had just responded to an RA. The Controller seemed indifferent as to the situation. As far as I know we did everything correctly and the RA maneuver did not result in any altitude deviations as we were cleared to climb and maintain 4;000 on departure.
An Air Carrier Crew reported a near miss at about 2;000 FT with a single engine aircraft after takeoff from IAH.