AVAir Flight 3378

The weather at the time of the accident included a low ceiling and low visibility. The flight crew consisted of Captain Walter R. Cole Jr., 38, and First Officer Kathleen P. Digan, 28. This accident was rated as unsurvivable by the NTSB due to extreme destruction of the aircraft. == Investigation ==

The NTSB published its report into the disaster on December 13, 1988. They found that the preliminary cause of the accident was the failure of the flight crew to maintain a proper flight path because of the improper instrument scanning by the first officer and the flight crew's response to a perceived fault in the stall warning system. Contributing features were the lack of company response to documented indications of difficulties in the first officer's piloting, and the lack of FAA surveillance of AVAir. In 1993, the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) filed a petition against the findings of the investigation and asked it to be reconsidered. The NTSB accepted the petition in part. The causes of the crash were changed to: "The probable cause of this accident was the failure of flight crew to maintain a proper flightpath. Contributing factors were the ineffective management and supervision of flight crew training and operations and inappropriate FAA surveillance of AVAir." == Memorial ==

In May 2016, a memorial was dedicated at Carpenter Park in Cary, NC, USA to the passengers, crew, families, and responders of both Flight 3378 and Flagship Airlines Flight 3379, which crashed near RDU Airport in 1994. == References ==