Originally Posted by
aerobat77
a far more interesting question is why all the flight crew , when trying somekind of a selfmade approach with the intention to go below published minimums even disregarded several "pull up" warnings.
Because the PIC heard such warnings during previous normal successful approaches to Smolensk-Severny, because the TAWS manufacturer forbade users to input into the airport database manually, because the American manufacturer wants more money for selling updates to the database.