Originally Posted by
JimEli
ELTs statistically fail to activate in ~20% of accidents. HTAWS were mandated since 2014. It would be interesting to know what type of system was installed and if alerting was disabled.
The elephant in the room is WHY the pilot thought it necessary to check the maintenance log at such a critical point of the flight?
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Agree on the ELT, as covered above
Also agree on which HTAWS system was installed. As noted, it could have been the GNS 430 or 530 on board system. I wonder if it had annunciators, aural warnings. And if it was easy to identify which box (assuming it was a GNS) had the system activated.
As for the elephant, the other two points are minor compared to that one....