Flight crew reported GPWS alert during approach to land to abq.

Attributes
ACN	1640524
Time
Date	201904
Local Time Of Day	0001-0600
Place
Locale Reference	ABQ.Airport
State Reference	NM
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Commercial Fixed Wing
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Not Flying Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 433
Person 2
Function	Pilot Flying First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 311
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT

Narrative:

First officer (first officer) was flying the RNAV Z runway 26 approach at night into abq. Weather was VMC and the autopilot was on. During the arcing portion of the approach; we received two 'caution terrain' alerts in quick succession. We were on the lateral and vertical path of the approach so it caught me off guard. According to company policy; we should have executed a go-around because it was night time. However; I feel this situation was somewhat unique because executing a go-around while in the base to final turn could cause the pilot flying to roll wings level; which in this situation would change the flight path to the north and towards the highest terrain. My instinct was for the first officer to continue flying the approach because the lateral course was turning us away from the terrain. We landed without incident.we could have done a better job briefing the hazards on this approach. The airport had just changed runway configuration; so we had briefed a different approach runway prior to top of descent.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Flight Crew reported GPWS Alert during approach to land to ABQ.

Narrative: FO (First Officer) was flying the RNAV Z Runway 26 Approach at night into ABQ. Weather was VMC and the autopilot was on. During the arcing portion of the approach; we received two 'Caution Terrain' Alerts in quick succession. We were on the lateral and vertical path of the approach so it caught me off guard. According to company policy; we should have executed a go-around because it was night time. However; I feel this situation was somewhat unique because executing a go-around while in the base to final turn could cause the pilot flying to roll wings level; which in this situation would change the flight path to the north and towards the highest terrain. My instinct was for the FO to continue flying the approach because the lateral course was turning us away from the terrain. We landed without incident.We could have done a better job briefing the hazards on this approach. The airport had just changed runway configuration; so we had briefed a different approach runway prior to Top of Descent.

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.