Narrative:

It was my first time flying into keug and I was the pilot flying. The weather was VMC and we setup for the visual to 16R backed up by the ILS. I briefed the full approach including the MSA. We were at 4000 approximately 15 miles northeast of the field and I told the captain I had the airport in sight. He advised ATC and we were cleared for the visual approach and handed off to the tower. The captain set 2000 for the FAF altitude and I turned the aircraft towards the FAF. The autopilot was on in heading sel and altitude hold at a speed of 240. I set a vertical speed of approximately 800 FPM and set the speed to 210 and asked for flaps 1 and 5. The green arc on the nd was aligned with the crossing the FAF at 2000 as published. The captain verbally stated that the terrain was rising off the left side of the aircraft. We both had terrain turned on and I checked the nd and only saw green dots but I believe that it was the old version that doesn't give terrain height information. At that moment the GPWS went off saying terrain terrain pull up. My first reaction was to look at the nd and look outside and I didn't see any terrain and the airport was still in sight. After the second GPWS alert; the captain said pull up and I disconnected the autopilot and autothrottles and pitched the aircraft up while adding power. We were maybe at 3700 feet and after the recovery we were back at 4000 and the GPWS instantly stopped. We leveled off at 4000 and I slowed the aircraft down again and we continued the visual approach to a successful landing in eugene. ATC never mentioned our low altitude or proximity to the terrain.

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Title: Air carrier flight crew reported receiving a Terrain warning while on a night visual approach to EUG.

Narrative: It was my first time flying into KEUG and I was the pilot flying. The weather was VMC and we setup for the Visual to 16R backed up by the ILS. I briefed the full approach including the MSA. We were at 4000 approximately 15 miles NE of the field and I told the Captain I had the airport in sight. He advised ATC and we were cleared for the visual approach and handed off to the tower. The Captain set 2000 for the FAF altitude and I turned the aircraft towards the FAF. The autopilot was on in HDG SEL and ALT HOLD at a speed of 240. I set a vertical speed of approximately 800 FPM and set the speed to 210 and asked for flaps 1 and 5. The green arc on the ND was aligned with the crossing the FAF at 2000 as published. The Captain verbally stated that the terrain was rising off the left side of the aircraft. We both had terrain turned on and I checked the ND and only saw green dots but I believe that it was the old version that doesn't give terrain height information. At that moment the GPWS went off saying Terrain Terrain Pull Up. My first reaction was to look at the ND and look outside and I didn't see any terrain and the airport was still in sight. After the second GPWS alert; the Captain said pull up and I disconnected the autopilot and autothrottles and pitched the aircraft up while adding power. We were maybe at 3700 feet and after the recovery we were back at 4000 and the GPWS instantly stopped. We leveled off at 4000 and I slowed the aircraft down again and we continued the visual approach to a successful landing in Eugene. ATC never mentioned our low altitude or proximity to the terrain.

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.