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  2. Ground proximity warning system - Wikipedia

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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 ]

  3. C. Donald Bateman - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Terrain awareness and warning system - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. TERPROM - Wikipedia

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    TERPROM (terrain profile matching) is a military navigation Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS) employed on aircraft and missiles, which uses stored digital elevation data combined with navigation system and radar altimeter inputs to compute the location of an aircraft or missile above the surface of the Earth. It is also used as a warning ...

  6. Talk:Ground proximity warning system - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. LoJack - Wikipedia

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    LoJack is a stolen-vehicle recovery and IoT-connected car system that utilizes GPS and cellular technology to locate users' vehicles, view trip-history, see battery levels, track speeding, and maintain vehicle-health via a native app. Prior to selling a vehicle, LoJack dealers can use the system to manage and locate inventory, view and manage battery-health, and recover stolen inventory.

  8. American Airlines Flight 965 - Wikipedia

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    An enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGPWS) that could have prevented the accident was introduced in 1996. [27] [28] [29] All U.S. registered turbine-powered aircraft capable of carrying more than six passengers built since 2002 are required to have an advanced terrain awareness warning system. [30] [31]

  9. Category:Warning systems - Wikipedia

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