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MD80 first officer experiences a momentary terrain warning during a day visual approach to runway 26 at abq. On final a windshear alert is annunciated and a go-around is initiated by the first officer. During the second visual approach to runway 26 another terrain warning is annunciated but the approach is continued to landing.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1176158 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201405 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ABQ.Airport |
| State Reference | NM |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | MD-80 Series (DC-9-80) Undifferentiated or Other Model |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Final Approach |
| Route In Use | Visual Approach |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | First Officer Pilot Flying |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence |
Narrative:
[We were] visual to runway 26 at abq. Approaching from the east and making a right turn to a left base; got one 'terrain; terrain' (no 'pull up') GPWS warning. I stopped the descent; but we were VMC and neither of us thought we were close to ground contact. Meanwhile; the tower was vectoring a C-130 on the opposite base leg and looked like there might be a conflict. I was already thinking go-around when finally; on final at about 1;500 AGL we got a visual and audible windshear alert and performed an uneventful go-around. Probably should have performed the escape maneuver but neither of us noticed any loss or gain of performance; but this is possibly because of the terrain and the C-130 so we were looking outside much of the time. After being vectored around we got another one time 'terrain' warning on base leg. [We] continued to an uneventful landing. Tower never commented on our altitude on either approach.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: MD80 First Officer experiences a momentary terrain warning during a day visual approach to Runway 26 at ABQ. On final a windshear alert is annunciated and a go-around is initiated by the First Officer. During the second visual approach to Runway 26 another terrain warning is annunciated but the approach is continued to landing.
Narrative: [We were] visual to Runway 26 at ABQ. Approaching from the east and making a right turn to a left base; got one 'Terrain; Terrain' (no 'Pull Up') GPWS warning. I stopped the descent; but we were VMC and neither of us thought we were close to ground contact. Meanwhile; the Tower was vectoring a C-130 on the opposite base leg and looked like there might be a conflict. I was already thinking go-around when finally; on final at about 1;500 AGL we got a visual and audible windshear alert and performed an uneventful go-around. Probably should have performed the escape maneuver but neither of us noticed any loss or gain of performance; but this is possibly because of the terrain and the C-130 so we were looking outside much of the time. After being vectored around we got another one time 'Terrain' warning on base leg. [We] continued to an uneventful landing. Tower never commented on our altitude on either approach.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.