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Air carrier flight crew reported on a night river visual runway 19 to dca they received a GPWS obstacle warning and continued to a landing.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1450496 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201705 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1801-2400 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | DCA.Airport |
| State Reference | DC |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Night |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Medium Large Transport Low Wing 2 Turbojet Eng |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Initial Approach |
| Route In Use | Visual Approach |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Captain Pilot Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Experience | Flight Crew Type 3400 |
| Person 2 | |
| Function | First Officer Pilot Not Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Experience | Flight Crew Type 145 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Conflict Airborne Conflict Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach |
Narrative:
During the dca river visual runway 19 approach (night VMC); a few actions happened in quick succession. The first happened when we were reconfiguring the airplane for the approach. I called for flaps 3; after a few seconds; I looked over and saw the flap selector in the flaps 4 configuration. I mentioned this to the first officer who reconfigured the flap selector back to flaps 3. At the time; I was hand flying the airplane. Whilst my attention was on the flap configuration; I unintentionally must have lowered the nose of the airplane causing the GPWS to call out 'pull up; pull up; obstacle' to annunciate. I quickly added power and raised the nose of the airplane to arrest the GPWS.don't fixate on any one thing. Keep a good awareness of what is happening around you.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Air carrier flight crew reported on a night River Visual Runway 19 to DCA they received a GPWS obstacle warning and continued to a landing.
Narrative: During the DCA River Visual Runway 19 approach (night VMC); a few actions happened in quick succession. The first happened when we were reconfiguring the airplane for the approach. I called for flaps 3; after a few seconds; I looked over and saw the flap selector in the flaps 4 configuration. I mentioned this to the FO who reconfigured the flap selector back to flaps 3. At the time; I was hand flying the airplane. Whilst my attention was on the flap configuration; I unintentionally must have lowered the nose of the airplane causing the GPWS to call out 'Pull Up; Pull Up; Obstacle' to annunciate. I quickly added power and raised the nose of the airplane to arrest the GPWS.Don't fixate on any one thing. Keep a good awareness of what is happening around you.
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.