Originally Posted by
Vessbot
It was 15 seconds from AP engagement and beginning of the pitch down to the EGPWS and corrective action. Right now, get out your phone or kitchen timer or whatever is within reach, and start it for 15 seconds. As it counts, close your eyes and imagine flying and/or monitoring the airplane, right after the off, and imagine it continuously pitching down as it develops a 4300 fpm descent rate, over the course of 15 seconds.
Does that feel like "almost immediately?"
Ok I read it as they responded ‘almost immediately’ to the pitch down, not the ‘don’t sink’ cation. Although the report does say ‘Timely warnings of the hazardous flight path were provided by the EGPWS, and prompt corrective action by the PF returned the aircraft to safe flight’ so they are damned with some faint praise.