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AVAir Flight 3378 (doing business as American Eagle Flight 3378), [1] [2] [3] was a scheduled flight from Raleigh–Durham International Airport to Richmond International Airport which crashed after takeoff from Raleigh-Durham International Airport late on the night of February 19, 1988. All 12 people on board were killed in the accident.
A flight attendant, Clarabelle Lansing, was ejected from the aircraft and her body was never recovered. February 19, 1988 12 0 0 AVAir Flight 3378: Cary: North Carolina: Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner: The aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff due to an excessive rate of turn on the part of the crew during the climb. January 19, 1988 9 7 8
On February 19, 1988, AVAir Flight 3378, a Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner was on a regularly scheduled flight between Raleigh and Richmond operating for American Eagle when it crashed into a reservoir about a mile from the airport in the vicinity of Cary. The aircraft had departed during low ceiling, low visibility and night conditions.
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Crews working at the site of the deadliest aviation disaster in a generation have recovered all 67 victims of the collision between two aircraft over the Potomac River in Washington, DC, officials ...
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Preliminary flight data from the deadly plane crash near Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., shows conflicting readings about the altitudes of a passenger jet and Army helicopter that ...
All 67 people aboard the two aircraft were killed in the crash (64 on the airliner, 3 on the helicopter). It was the first major U.S. commercial passenger flight crash in nearly 16 years since Colgan Air Flight 3407 in 2009, and the deadliest U.S. air disaster in nearly 24 years. [6] [7]