A320
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 130; Flight Crew Total 614; Flight Crew Type 614
Conflict NMAC
General None Reported / Taken
Human Factors
While on a dogleg base to final Runway 22L into EWR; my First Officer reported that we had barely missed colliding with a drone. We were 5 miles west of final at 3;000 feet when a white drone with some red striping came within a couple hundred feet with us. We believe it was at our altitude but a couple hundred feet south of our course. We reported it to ATC and continued our landing without incident.
While being vectored for the ILS Runway 21L EWR and on approach control 120.15 we had a very close near miss with a drone. The near miss was the drone passed under our right wing within 50 feet while we were descending through 3;500 feet and on a heading of 130 deg approximately 10 NM North of EWR and apron 5 NM west of TEB. The drone was about 5 feet in size with a football shape and mostly white with a small amount of red on the 'nose' of the drone. It appeared the drone was moving slowly to the west away from TEB.
A320 flight crew reported a near mid air collision with a drone during approach to landing.