Commercial Fixed Wing
Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 107.97; Flight Crew Total 20100; Flight Crew Type 17600
Distraction
Airspace Violation All Types; Conflict NMAC; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Unauthorized Flight Operations (UAS); Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Flight Crew Requested ATC Assistance / Clarification
Airport; Human Factors
While flying the Stadium Visual Approach to Runway 29 at Newark Liberty Airport as Pilot Flying; I saw a white squarish object pass off the lower right side of the aircraft in my peripheral vision. I asked the co-pilot what that had been and he replied it had been a drone. We were at approximately 1000 feet in a descending right turn between the fixes SLIMR and CHUMR.  I would estimate the drone had passed underneath the right wing at less than 100 feet separation but far enough away to feel reasonably confident that it had not struck the airplane. The co-pilot agreed and then alerted Newark Tower of the presence of the drone on final approach so that they could pass this information on to the succeeding aircraft on approach. They requested that after landing we provide them with any additional description we could; which we did with Ground Control after clearing the runway and beginning our initial taxi to the gate.
Air carrier flight crew had a near miss with a UAS while on a visual approach.