A Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS) is a system designed to alert pilots if their aircraft is in immediate danger of flying into the ground or an...

The specific systems currently in use are the ground proximity warning system (GPWS) and the enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGPWS). The U...

was a Canadian electrical engineer and the inventor of the Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS), a device that is responsible for a marked decline in...

Tararua Range. Due to reasons unknown, the ground proximity warning system sounded with insufficient warning for the pilots to avert the accident. The...

In response to the high descent rate and numerous warnings from the ground proximity warning system, the first officer raised the landing gear and speed...

terrain awareness and warning systems (TAWS). The first generation of those systems was known as a ground proximity warning system (GPWS), which used a...

avoidance warning system / enhanced ground proximity warning system). Both systems provide warnings and verbal instructions. The auditory warnings produced...

silence the stall warning. The Ground proximity warning system (GPWS) then sounded briefly, though the radio altimeter sent out warnings seconds after, cutting...

Fire alarm system Gale warning Ground proximity warning system Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System International Early Warning Programme J-Alert (Japan)...

navigation Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS) employed on aircraft and missiles, which uses stored digital elevation data combined with navigation system and...

Wildlife Service Train Protection & Warning System Terrain Proximity Warning System, see Ground proximity warning system This disambiguation page lists articles...

the ground proximity warning system (GPWS) activated, announcing an imminent terrain collision and sounding an alarm. Within a second of this warning, the...

Parking sensors, systems mounted on car bumpers that sense distance to nearby cars for parking Inductive sensors Ground proximity warning system for aviation...

The pilots had no warning of the imminent impact because Air Inter had not equipped its aircraft with a ground proximity warning system (GPWS). At the time...

the manufacturer subsequently also recognised the lack of a ground proximity warning system in its aircraft. The accident is the deadliest aviation accident...

touchdown, the aircraft's rapid descent triggered the enhanced ground proximity warning system, which sounded a "sink rate" alert in the cockpit. Just before...

enhancement to the aircraft's terrain awareness and warning system (TAWS) or enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGPWS). Alaska Airlines announced in September...

the NTSB recovered the cockpit voice recorder, the enhanced ground proximity warning system, which could contain flight data, and the two engines of the...

An airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) system is an airborne radar early warning system designed to detect aircraft, ships, vehicles, missiles and...

can update an EFIS system to extend its capabilities. Updates introduced in the 1990s included the ground proximity warning system and traffic collision...

was, which also prevented the Ground proximity warning system (GPWS) from reading the situation and sounding a warning. The ILS receiver of the first...

Ground Proximity Warning System Mid-air collision (MAC) Obstacle Collision Avoidance System Portable collision avoidance system Voice warning system "Traffic...

left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left!" Ground Proximity Warning System: "Whoop whoop pull up. Whoop whoop pull up. Whoop whoop pull...

No warning is given if an aircraft does not contain an additional FLARM device. a Ground proximity warning system (GPWS), or Ground collision warning system...

calls from the first officer to 'go around' and warnings from the enhanced ground proximity warning system. Additional factors included the captain's prolonged...

70° and engines were pushed to full power, during which the ground proximity warning system sounded.: 292  In the final moments, as the airspeed exceeded...

[citation needed] Seconds before impact, the ground proximity warning system (GPWS) activated, and sounded alarms warning the crew of the imminent collision with...

to cease operating entirely. The ground proximity warning system activated, sounding several "glideslope" warnings. The pilots attempted to restart the...

Erebus. At 12:49 pm, the ground proximity warning system (GPWS) began sounding a series of "whoop, whoop, pull up" alarms, warning that the plane was dangerously...

of enquiry blamed the captain for failing to react to the Ground Proximity Warning System. Another theory was that the crew had set the aircraft's VOR...