On February 19, 1988, an AVAir Inc. Fairchild Metro III, N622AV, operating as Air Virginia (AVAir) flight 3378, crashed in Cary, North Carolina shortly after it departed runway 23R at Raleigh Durham International Airport (RDU), Morrisville, North Carolina, with 2 flightcrew members and 10 passengers on board. The airplane struck water within 100 feet of the shoreline of a reservoir, about 5,100 feet west of the midpoint of runway 23R. The airplane was destroyed and all 12 persons on board were killed. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the failure of the flightcrew to maintain a proper flightpath because of the first officer's inappropriate instrument scan, the captain's inadequate monitoring of the flight, and the flightcrew's response to a perceived fault in the airplane's stall avoidance system. Contributing to the accident was the lack of company response to documented indications of difficulties in the first officer's piloting, and inadequate Federal Aviation Administration surveillance of AVAir.
Aircraft Accident Report-AVAir Inc., Flight 3378, Fairchild Metro III, SA227 AC, N622AV, Cary, North Carolina, February 19, 1988
1988
73 pages
Report
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English
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