tubby linton;
The QAR would not likely have survived as it is usually mounted in the electronics bay underneath the cockpit, but I think I know what you meant and I'm in the process of examining the DFDR traces.
safetypee;
Thank you for the link to the "TAWS Saves..." document - very valuable piece of writing I think.
The accident is a classic "
Incident 1" from that document, isn't it?, including as you say, all contributing factors.
If I understand TAWS correctly, the aircraft was not within the "TOO LOW TERRAIN" TAWS Boundary as described below.
PJ2