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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 obstacle. The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) defines GPWS as a type of terrain awareness and warning system (TAWS). [ 1 ]
The U.S. FAA defines GPWS as a type of terrain awareness warning system.[1] More advanced systems, introduced in 1996,[2] are known as enhanced ground proximity warning system, although sometimes confusingly labeled with the TAWS term. I think this should be rephrased. As far as I know, the EGPWS is a TAWS. TAWS is the system, EGPWS is a ...
A piece of the wreckage of Air New Zealand Flight 901, which crashed in Antarctica in 1979, despite being equipped with a GPWS.All 257 people on the plane died. Beginning in the early 1970s, a number of studies looked at the occurrence of CFIT accidents, where a properly functioning airplane under the control of a fully qualified and certificated crew is flown into terrain (or water or ...
A Nissan Altima is sacrificed as a Cary engineer tests his system for preventing cars from going underneath truck trailers. There’s only one way to know if this safety device for trucks works ...
Bateman in 2012. Charles Donald Bateman (8 March 1932 - 21 May 2023 (aged 91)), often known as Don Bateman, 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 controlled flight into terrain accidents, such as the Mount Erebus Disaster with Air New Zealand Flight 901.
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The decision by Alaska Airlines to stop flying one of its planes over the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii due to warnings from a cabin-pressurization system — yet keep flying it over land — is raising ...
Ford Motor Co on Monday warned an additional 33,000 owners of older pickup trucks in North America to stop driving them.