Air carrier flight crew reported ATC gave them a low altitude alert and his aircraft's egpws alerted...

Narrative:

As we were coming in for a visual landing into avp we were stable at 3000 ft on a right base for runway 22. The final approach fix wexin is at 2800 ft and the airport elevation is 962 ft. There is a mountain ridge west of course with terrain at 2000 ft with towers up to 2744 ft. We fully briefed the altitudes and were completely clear about our position and the surrounding terrain as we approached from the west. We located the towers and we both had visual confirmation of the highest tower located at 2744 ft. The arrival checklist was complete and both altimeters were set with the local setting of 30.03. As we crossed the ridge at 3000 ft we received an aural 'terrain terrain' warning. We figured this was due to the tower as we crossed over just north of it but still the first officer (pilot flying) immediately started to climb. ATC also simultaneously advised us of low altitude as we started the climb. We leveled off around 3800 ft which was now 1000 ft above the final approach fix altitude and began to join the localizer just north of wexin. We were high so the first officer slowed and configured early so we could descend onto glidepath at a reasonable rate. We were configured and stable by 1000 ft so we proceeded and landed normally. The threat was terrain and towers that were close enough to set off the aircraft warning system. We were completely aware of our location and proximity to terrain and towers but unaware that we were within the aircraft's warning limits for obstacles. I thought everything was briefed perfectly and well planned to avoid common mistakes of a high unstable approach in avp. The MSA was 4000 ft. We decided to go down to 3000 ft cause we were still 1000 ft above terrain and 300 ft above the highest tower as we crossed the mountain ridge. We could have stayed at the MSA and extended the downwind to allow more time to descend once established on the inbound course. In the future regardless if it's visual and we can clearly see the terrain/tower threats I will stay at the MSA until established to avoid any chance of triggering the aircraft warning system.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air carrier flight crew reported ATC gave them a low altitude alert and his aircraft's EGPWS alerted after they descended to 3;000 ft prior to WEXIN on visual approach to Runway 22 at AVP.

Narrative: As we were coming in for a visual landing into AVP we were stable at 3000 ft on a right base for runway 22. The final approach fix WEXIN is at 2800 ft and the airport elevation is 962 ft. There is a mountain ridge west of course with terrain at 2000 ft with towers up to 2744 ft. We fully briefed the altitudes and were completely clear about our position and the surrounding terrain as we approached from the west. We located the towers and we both had visual confirmation of the highest tower located at 2744 ft. The arrival checklist was complete and both altimeters were set with the local setting of 30.03. As we crossed the ridge at 3000 ft we received an aural 'terrain terrain' warning. We figured this was due to the tower as we crossed over just north of it but still the FO (pilot flying) immediately started to climb. ATC also simultaneously advised us of low altitude as we started the climb. We leveled off around 3800 ft which was now 1000 ft above the final approach fix altitude and began to join the localizer just north of WEXIN. We were high so the FO slowed and configured early so we could descend onto glidepath at a reasonable rate. We were configured and stable by 1000 ft so we proceeded and landed normally. The threat was terrain and towers that were close enough to set off the aircraft warning system. We were completely aware of our location and proximity to terrain and towers but unaware that we were within the aircraft's warning limits for obstacles. I thought everything was briefed perfectly and well planned to avoid common mistakes of a high unstable approach in AVP. The MSA was 4000 ft. We decided to go down to 3000 ft cause we were still 1000 ft above terrain and 300 ft above the highest tower as we crossed the mountain ridge. We could have stayed at the MSA and extended the downwind to allow more time to descend once established on the inbound course. In the future regardless if it's visual and we can clearly see the terrain/tower threats I will stay at the MSA until established to avoid any chance of triggering the aircraft warning system.

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.

Attributes
ACN	1460765
Time
Date	201706
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	AVP.Airport
State Reference	PA
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Medium 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	Pilot Not Flying Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Person 2
Function	First Officer Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Altitude Undershoot Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT

Air carrier flight crew reported ATC gave them a low altitude alert and his aircraft's egpws alerted after they descended to 3;000 ft prior to wexin on visual approach to runway 22 at avp.