Originally Posted by
airplanecrazy
I'm a little surprised that there was no mention of TAWS and the investigators' conclusion that it wouldn't have helped in this situation. Some armchair pundits thought that it would have helped, and I thought perhaps the NTSB might have disabused pilots of that notion. Here is the lead investigator from the NTSB board meeting talking about TAWS.:
NTSB Board Meeting
HTAWS would only have helped if the pilot knew how to keep the aircraft the right way up in the first place.