Originally Posted by
xetroV
With that speed over the threshold, I believe the crew would never have received a
TOO LOW GEAR warning during the first approach; they would have received
TOO LOW TERRAIN instead (or another mode if that would have priority). I can see how a crew would discard the latter GPWS warning as being erroneous/nuisance when approaching a runway in VMC, especially a crew that had already lost their situational awareness due to extreme (probably self-induced) tunnel-vision.
Here's the mode 4a envelope.
Thanks, very good point. This is the one from GTG with Surveillance.
