AVAir Flight 3378 is a scheduled flight from Raleigh-Durham International Airport to Richmond International Airport that crashed after takeoff from Raleigh/Durham airport late on 19 February 1988. All 12 people in it were killed in an accident.
Video AVAir Flight 3378
Order of accidents
The weather at the time of the accident included low ceilings and low visibility.
Flight AVAir 3378 takes off from Raleigh-Durham International Airport at 21:25 local time and rises to a height of 300 feet. Shortly thereafter, the last transmission from the aircraft to the air traffic control was heard. The aircraft maintains an appropriate climbing speed but at an excessive turning rate of 40 to 45 degrees; the standard turn level would be 22 degrees. Because of the turn, the plane began to descend. The plane then crashed into a water reservoir 100 feet from the coastline, at a point 5100 feet west of the 23R runway. The debris then continued to land and into the forest. Several post-collision fires were also seen at the crash site, but were quickly extinguished.
According to local controllers, he heard but could not see the previous plane, MD-80 America, departing. He saw the MD-80 on the radar and cleared AVAir 3378 for departure. He spotted AVAir 3378 in the air, watched it on the radar, and then cleared the Piedmont plane to leave. Within the next 3 minutes, he clears Cessna for landing, coordinates with the departure handler, and seeks AVAir 3378. At 2131: 45, the local RDU controller warns of an emergency system.
The accident was rated as unbearable by the NTSB due to the extreme destruction of the aircraft.
Maps AVAir Flight 3378
Investigation
The NTSB published its report into the disaster on December 13, 1988. They found that the initial cause of the crash was a crew's failure to maintain the correct flight path due to improper instrument scanning by first officers and crew response to mistakes felt in the kiosk alert system. The contributing features are the lack of corporate responses to the documented difficulty indications in the first officer pilot, and the lack of FAA oversight of AVAir.
In 1993, the Airline Pilots Association (ALPA) petitioned the findings of the investigation and asked for reconsideration. NTSB accepts partial applications. The cause of the accident was changed to: "The probable cause of this accident is the failure of the crew to maintain the correct flight path, contributing factors are ineffective management and oversight of the training and operation of FAAs against AVAir."
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
0 Comments