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3rd Jan 2010, 13:18

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The accident report describes the EGPWS installation and system switching; it is typical of most aircraft installations. Pushing the ‘Terrain OFF’ illuminated push button on main instrument panel inhibits the ‘Enhanced’ functions, but leaves the basic GPWS modes active.

An incident in N America involving an A320 where the crew inhibited EGPWS is described at item 8 in TAWS ‘Saves’ - a very near miss.

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