> You’re arguing for vastly more complexity in the flight director The airplane should already have a terrain database in the ground proximity warning system,

> You’re arguing for vastly more complexity in the flight director The airplane should already have a terrain database in the ground proximity warning system, so triggering a warning in this case doesn't seem entirely unreasonable, should have very low false positives, and could improve flight safety. Should it be necessary? Theoretically not, but pilots are human, and we have to choose whether we want to be smug about their stupidity while piecing together 300+ charred corpses, or account for humans doing human things.