Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Multiengine
Time Pressure; Situational Awareness; Communication Breakdown; Confusion
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT
Air Traffic Control Issued New Clearance; Air Traffic Control Issued Advisory / Alert; Flight Crew Requested ATC Assistance / Clarification; Flight Crew Became Reoriented
Human Factors; Chart Or Publication; Airspace Structure; Procedure
[We were] cleared for the visual approach. Pilot in Command hand flew the visual approach. Switched to Tower and was cleared to land. During the descent to land Pilot in Command got too low. Second in Command informed Pilot in Command to climb as aircraft was too low and almost hit terrain Pilot in Command said he was good; Second in Command advised Pilot in Command to immediately climb. Pilot in Command was reluctant to climb. Tower informed us that we were too low for that sector of the approach and to Immediately climb. Pilot in Command climbed back up to 3;100 feet from 2;000 feet; then landed normally. Pilot in Command lost situational awareness during a visual approach. Pilot in Command initially did not react and did not listen to advice from Second in Command that the aircraft was too low on the Approach. It was not until the ATC Tower Controller told crew to immediately climb to 3;100 feet; did the Pilot in Command react and then climb back up to 3;100 feet. Suggest that the company discusses and better trains flight crews in performing visual approaches at day and night and to somehow incorporate improved Crew Resource Management Training so that if a Second in Command tells the Pilot in Command to climb or descend Immediately; he or she will listen and react immediately; and then ask questions later when the risk factor has been mitigated.
First Officer Pilot Monitoring reported the Pilot Flying flew too low on a Visual Approach and did not respond to his instructions to climb to avoid terrain until ATC also instructed them to climb.