If it is true that TAWS would scream the same, say, during the same plane's landing in the Northern three days earlier, on the 7th (pity one can't hear anywhere that flight black boxes record. wonder if it was erased after the successful flight, space on the tapes not allowing to record several days in a row? ? or is that record still there on the same very tapes)
- then the crew might have simply neglected the alarms not because thety went into some "stupor", as some suggest (I think they had no time even for that:o), and not because they were out-commanded by whatever "superior" to try to land come whatever,
but simply because they knew, in experience, that TAWS would shout on approach to any aerodrome not in the system's database.
Then it is very unfair of MAK to point out to the "neglect of the warning system signals by the crew", when listing the possible causes of the accident. MAK simply do not want to quarrel with that CFIT avoidance equipment producer, to go into details why some pilots - purely theoretically - sometimes - put 760 air pressure knowing it is not correct but trying to fool the system (in part, at least) to decrease the level of sound. May be in order not to startle every other minute. or to be less nervous.
So MAK acts formally - blaming the un-ruly pilots who neglected the warning system. And says No, we have no idea, why would they put the barometer on 760. We can't look into thoughts in the crew's heads.
Formally all correct.