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FLIGHT SAFETY FOUNDATION
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Safety Alert
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Flight Safety Foundation recommends immediate implementation of the following ground-

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proximity warning system (GPWS) procedures by all flight operations:

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• When a GPWS warning occurs, pilots should immediately, and without hesitating to
evaluate the warning, execute the pull-up action recommended in the company

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procedure manual;

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• In the absence of a company procedure, an immediate maximum performance full-

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power climb should be initiated and continued until the GPWS warning stops and the
crew determines that terrain clearance is assured;

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• This immediate pull-up procedure should be followed except in clear daylight visual

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meteorological conditions when the flight crew can immediately and unequivocally

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confirm a false GPWS warning; and,

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• Air traffic control (ATC) should be notified as soon as possible after a GPWS warning
or pull-up.

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Flight Safety Foundation, drawing on broad support from the worldwide aviation industry, has

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launched an ambitious international project to reduce by 50 percent the number of controlled-

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flight-into-terrain (CFIT) accidents and approach/landing accidents during the next five years.
This Safety Alert is being distributed to air carriers and other flight operators throughout the

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world as a result of the Foundation CFIT task force’s early findings, which are listed below.

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• CFIT represents the single largest risk to aircraft;

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• Fifty percent of recent CFIT accidents occurred to aircraft without operational GPWS; many

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others involved early-generation GPWS known to give false warnings;

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• Of those CFIT accidents in which aircraft were equipped with a properly operating GPWS, an
alarming number of flight crews did not follow recommended pull-up procedures in response

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to GPWS warnings; and,

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• Flight crews in CFIT accidents often ignored GPWS warnings; delayed recommended pull-up

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procedures while trying to evaluate the accuracy of the GPWS warning; or failed to respond
with sufficient aggressive pull-up action.

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