Air carrier flight crew experienced a GPWS warning after being cleared for a visual approach to runway 4 at gsp and commencing descent. A lighted antenna; which the crew had in sight was the cause of the warning.

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Attributes
ACN	917834
Time
Date	201011
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	GSP.Airport
State Reference	SC
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Commercial Fixed Wing
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Person 1
Function	First Officer Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Person 2
Function	Pilot Flying Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT

Narrative:

After cleared for visual approach runway 4 gsp; the captain descended to 3;000. There was a tower in our area at 2;539 and that caused our egpws to go off. We missed the tower and ATC asked if we were ok. We landed without incident. We both should have been more vigilant as to the terrain.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air Carrier flight crew experienced a GPWS warning after being cleared for a visual approach to Runway 4 at GSP and commencing descent. A lighted antenna; which the crew had in sight was the cause of the warning.

Narrative: After cleared for visual approach Runway 4 GSP; the Captain descended to 3;000. There was a tower in our area at 2;539 and that caused our EGPWS to go off. We missed the tower and ATC asked if we were ok. We landed without incident. We both should have been more vigilant as to the terrain.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.