Regional Jet 200 ER/LR (CRJ200)
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Conflict Airborne Conflict
General None Reported / Taken
Human Factors
While on approach to PIT the Captain noticed a Drone and called its position out. I looked up and saw a 4 bladed drone with a camera attached to the bottom pass no more than 200 ft above and to the left of the aircraft. We were descending through 5000 ft at around 250 KIAS on the visual approach.It is obvious that catastrophic damage could have occurred to the aircraft if we would have struck the drone. It is my understanding that drones are not to be operated above 400 ft AGL and at least 5 SM outside the area of an airport. If this is the law it should be enforced.
CRJ200 First Officer reported sighting a drone with a camera attached at 5000 feet during a visual approach to PIT.