Air carrier flight crew reported climbing in response to a GPWS terrain warning at night on approach...

Narrative:

Initially we were direct eugene airport; cleared down to 6000 ft; and planning cat 3 ILS 16R due to some low level light fog on the ATIS. Fog did not exist and we were VMC night conditions. ATC assigned a heading approximately 300 and cleared us down to 4;400 ft for a downwind leg; autopilot was on. I was looking out the left window at the airport when I noticed a tower go by the left side of the airplane that looked fairly close at night. Approximately 5 seconds after that the GPWS terrain warning sounded. I clicked off the autopilot and performed the terrain escape maneuver. I don't believe more than 3 or 4 terrain warnings sounded and never got the pull up. MVA is 5;300 ft so I directed the first officer (first officer) to set 8;000 ft and started recovering the airplane passing 6;000 ft. The first officer as pm (pilot monitoring) notified approach control of our situation and that we were climbing rapidly. After recovery; the first officer told ATC what happened and ATC responded that a few airplanes had gotten warnings and done the same thing including a couple rj's in that exact location. ATC confirmed that where we were located the MVA for them is 4;400 ft. We extended our downwind slightly to return to an appropriate approach profile. ATC vectored us for final and asked if we were ok to continue the approach out of concern. We continued and the rest of the flight was uneventful.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air carrier flight crew reported climbing in response to a GPWS terrain warning at night on approach to EUG.

Narrative: Initially we were direct Eugene airport; cleared down to 6000 ft; and planning Cat 3 ILS 16R due to some low level light fog on the ATIS. Fog did not exist and we were VMC night conditions. ATC assigned a heading approximately 300 and cleared us down to 4;400 ft for a downwind leg; autopilot was on. I was looking out the left window at the airport when I noticed a tower go by the left side of the airplane that looked fairly close at night. Approximately 5 seconds after that the GPWS TERRAIN warning sounded. I clicked off the autopilot and performed the Terrain Escape maneuver. I don't believe more than 3 or 4 terrain warnings sounded and never got the PULL UP. MVA is 5;300 ft so I directed the FO (First Officer) to set 8;000 ft and started recovering the airplane passing 6;000 ft. The FO as PM (Pilot Monitoring) notified Approach Control of our situation and that we were climbing rapidly. After recovery; the FO told ATC what happened and ATC responded that a few airplanes had gotten warnings and done the same thing including a couple RJ's in that exact location. ATC confirmed that where we were located the MVA for them is 4;400 ft. We extended our downwind slightly to return to an appropriate approach profile. ATC vectored us for final and asked if we were ok to continue the approach out of concern. We continued and the rest of the flight was uneventful.

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	1511197
Time
Date	201801
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	EUG.Airport
State Reference	OR
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Large Transport Low Wing 2 Turbojet Eng
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Final Approach
Route In Use	Vectors
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Type 526
Person 2
Function	First Officer Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Type 1807
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT

Air carrier flight crew reported climbing in response to a GPWS terrain warning at night on approach to eug.