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Crj-700 first officer reported receiving a low attitude alert from ATC on a night visual approach to hsv.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1360348 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201605 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1801-2400 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | HSV.Airport |
| State Reference | AL |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Regional Jet 700 ER/LR (CRJ700) |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Descent |
| Route In Use | Visual Approach |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | First Officer Pilot Not Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT |
Narrative:
We were setting up for a right base for runway 36L into hsv with the captain being the pilot flying. It was just after dark; we had called the field in sight and began our descent to traffic pattern altitude; after being cleared for the visual approach. On the right base as we were descending the captain asked me if I thought we were too low and I went to look at one of the approach charts into hsv. When I looked at the chart in relation to where we were I said that I thought we were fine. As soon as I said this we simultaneously were told by ATC that they were getting a low altitude alert for our flight and a GPWS warning to pull up. The captain disengaged the autopilot and began to climb and I notified ATC that we were correcting our altitude. After correcting our altitude to a safe altitude we continued the approach to a safe landing.the event occurred because runway 35R was out of service and the ILS was out of service to runway 35L. We decided to set up for a visual and thought we were closer to the airport in relation to terrain than we thought. Therefore we descended to traffic pattern altitude too early.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: CRJ-700 First Officer reported receiving a low attitude alert from ATC on a night visual approach to HSV.
Narrative: We were setting up for a right base for runway 36L into HSV with the Captain being the pilot flying. It was just after dark; we had called the field in sight and began our descent to traffic pattern altitude; after being cleared for the visual approach. On the right base as we were descending the Captain asked me if I thought we were too low and I went to look at one of the approach charts into HSV. When I looked at the chart in relation to where we were I said that I thought we were fine. As soon as I said this we simultaneously were told by ATC that they were getting a low altitude alert for our flight and a GPWS warning to pull up. The Captain disengaged the autopilot and began to climb and I notified ATC that we were correcting our altitude. After correcting our altitude to a safe altitude we continued the approach to a safe landing.The event occurred because runway 35R was out of service and the ILS was out of service to runway 35L. We decided to set up for a visual and thought we were closer to the airport in relation to terrain than we thought. Therefore we descended to traffic pattern altitude too early.
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.