Air carrier flight crew was receiving vectors for an ILS approach when they received a GPWS terrain ...

Narrative:

I was the pilot monitoring on this leg. Upon the arrival into the terminal area; bangor approach was giving us radar vectors for the ILS 33 approach. We were eventually told turn to a heading of 360 and to maintain 2500 feet until establish [and] cleared for the ILS 33 approach. At the time; we were in between cuvot and elsuh still on the assigned heading when we received a 'terrain terrain; pull up' with a ground proximity caution message on the pfd. The captain proceeded with a go-around procedure. I contacted ATC and we were given a heading and altitude to fly. We then performed all necessary procedures to come back around and land safely. We asked ATC what the possible cause of the alert was and he then advised us that his minimum vectoring altitude was 2100 feet in the area (we were at 2500) and that he has seen it happen before to aircraft due to a hill between cuvot and elsuh. Escape maneuver followed by an uneventful landing and arrival to the gate. Request to join the localizer at a higher altitude in IMC conditions

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air carrier flight crew was receiving vectors for an ILS approach when they received a GPWS Terrain warning and conducted a miss approach and landed without incident.

Narrative: I was the Pilot Monitoring on this leg. Upon the arrival into the terminal area; Bangor Approach was giving us radar vectors for the ILS 33 approach. We were eventually told turn to a heading of 360 and to maintain 2500 feet until establish [and] cleared for the ILS 33 approach. At the time; we were in between CUVOT and ELSUH still on the assigned heading when we received a 'terrain terrain; pull up' with a ground proximity caution message on the PFD. The captain proceeded with a go-around procedure. I contacted ATC and we were given a heading and altitude to fly. We then performed all necessary procedures to come back around and land safely. We asked ATC what the possible cause of the alert was and he then advised us that his minimum vectoring altitude was 2100 feet in the area (we were at 2500) and that he has seen it happen before to aircraft due to a hill between CUVOT and ELSUH. Escape maneuver followed by an uneventful landing and arrival to the gate. Request to join the localizer at a higher altitude in IMC conditions

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	1607500
Time
Date	201901
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	BGR.Airport
State Reference	ME
Environment
Flight Conditions	IMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Medium Transport
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	First Officer Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Person 2
Function	Pilot Flying First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT

Air carrier flight crew was receiving vectors for an ILS approach when they received a GPWS terrain warning and conducted a miss approach and landed without incident.