Air carrier flight crew reported an aural terrain warning while descending to cak airport in an area...

Attributes
ACN	1699764
Time
Date	201911
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	CAK.Airport
State Reference	OH
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
Component
Aircraft Component	GPWS
Person 1
Function	Pilot Not Flying Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine
Person 2
Function	Pilot Flying First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Instrument
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Deviation - Procedural Clearance Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT

Narrative:

While in the approach phase of flight; ATC gave us a descent to 3;000 feet. Crew started the descent with a 500-600 FPM and around 3;800 feet; crew received a GPWS terrain alert followed with a pull up command. Crew arrested the descent; applied climb power and began to climb. Pilot monitoring called ATC and advised of the GPWS warning and will level off at 5;000 feet. ATC acknowledge the climb and advised that 3;000 feet is a safe altitude for the sector we were in and not sure why we got the terrain warning. In the approach chart the highest obstacles are 2;049 feet; and 3;100 feet is the MSA west of the aco VOR. ATC instructed us to maintain 5;000 feet and to descend at pilot discretion to 3;000 feet and cleared us for the visual approach to runway 19. Captain decided to start the descent to 3;500 feet when intercepted the localizer inbound to runway 19. Once established on the localizer; captured the glideslope and landed. During the entire approach it was night VFR.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air carrier flight crew reported an aural terrain warning while descending to CAK airport in an area where the Minimum Safe Altitude was lower than the aircraft's altitude.

Narrative: While in the approach phase of flight; ATC gave us a descent to 3;000 feet. Crew started the descent with a 500-600 FPM and around 3;800 feet; crew received a GPWS TERRAIN alert followed with a PULL UP command. Crew arrested the descent; applied climb power and began to climb. Pilot Monitoring called ATC and advised of the GPWS warning and will level off at 5;000 feet. ATC acknowledge the climb and advised that 3;000 feet is a safe altitude for the sector we were in and not sure why we got the TERRAIN warning. In the approach chart the highest obstacles are 2;049 feet; and 3;100 feet is the MSA west of the ACO VOR. ATC instructed us to maintain 5;000 feet and to descend at pilot discretion to 3;000 feet and cleared us for the visual approach to Runway 19. Captain decided to start the descent to 3;500 feet when intercepted the localizer inbound to Runway 19. Once established on the localizer; captured the glideslope and landed. During the entire approach it was night VFR.

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.

Air carrier flight crew reported an aural terrain warning while descending to cak airport in an area where the minimum safe altitude was lower than the aircraft's altitude.