An air carrier crew reported conducting the escape maneuver in response to an egpws terrain pull up ...

Attributes
ACN	1047209
Time
Date	201211
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	SEQU.Airport
State Reference	FO
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Dusk
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Commercial Fixed Wing
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Descent
Route In Use	Other RNAV RNP 35
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Not Flying First Officer
Experience	Flight Crew Total 6200
Person 2
Function	Pilot Flying Captain
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 250 Flight Crew Total 16500 Flight Crew Type 6200
Events
Anomaly	Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT

Narrative:

[We were] flying into quito on the RNAV rnp runway 35 approach. VMC conditions; I was pilot not flying. Airplane was in VNAV and LNAV and the autopilot was engaged. We were told to report devas inbound. I had my head down at devas while tuning the radio frequency to make the report to tower. I heard the warning 'terrain... Pull up.' as I was looking up the captain pulled back on the yoke and the warning went away. I looked outside and at the instruments and did not see any indication that we were too low. We were above glide path and the runway and ground lights were visible. The captain resumed the approach and we landed without incident.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An Air Carrier crew reported conducting the escape maneuver in response to an EGPWS TERRAIN PULL UP alert at 10;400 FT on the SEQU RNP RNAV Runway 35 just inside DEVAS even though the aircraft was in VNAV PATH above the VASI.

Narrative: [We were] flying into Quito on the RNAV RNP Runway 35 approach. VMC conditions; I was pilot not flying. Airplane was in VNAV and LNAV and the autopilot was engaged. We were told to report DEVAS inbound. I had my head down at DEVAS while tuning the radio frequency to make the report to Tower. I heard the warning 'Terrain... pull up.' As I was looking up the Captain pulled back on the yoke and the warning went away. I looked outside and at the instruments and did not see any indication that we were too low. We were above glide path and the runway and ground lights were visible. The Captain resumed the approach and we landed without incident.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 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.

An air carrier crew reported conducting the escape maneuver in response to an egpws terrain pull up alert at 10;400 ft on the sequ rnp RNAV runway 35 just inside devas even though the aircraft was in VNAV path above the VASI.