Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Communication Breakdown; Workload; Time Pressure; Situational Awareness; Distraction
ATC Issue All Types; Conflict NMAC
General None Reported / Taken
Airport; Procedure; Environment - Non Weather Related
We were assigned LOC/BC 31L due to reported hazy conditions at BRO. Approach Control cleared us for the approach and Tower cleared us to land. On short final the Tower called traffic on the right downwind for Runway 35. We looked for the traffic but did not see it and told the Tower that we did not have the traffic in sight. At 200 FT the Tower asked if we had the traffic in sight. At the same time we received a TCAS TA. Using the TCAS display for reference; I visually acquired the downwind traffic directly overhead (0 mile lateral separation) with 400 FT vertical separation. I told the Tower that traffic was in sight and the First Officer continued the landing. There would not have been enough vertical separation for us to safely execute a go around.
An Air Carrier Captain reported a near miss on BRO Runway 31L short final with another aircraft on a visual approach to Runway 35 after the crew had previously reported that aircraft not in sight and ATC failed update the traffic's position.