N622AV (Dji AGRAS T50) — accident record & aircraft history

Registrations are reused: the FAA register shows one earlier aircraft with this mark, the last registration cancelled on October 30, 1996.

FlightFinder has no observed route profile for this registration. The documented safety events below are available independently of live flight tracking.

Safety history

February 20, 1988Accident
THE AIRCRAFT DEPARTED DURING LOW CEILING, LOW VISIBILITY, AND NIGHT CONDITIONS. SHORTLY AFTER TAKEOFF THE AIRCRAFT IMPACTED A RESERVOIR. ANALYSIS OF RADAR DATA INDICATED THE ACFT WAS IN A 45 DEGREE DESCENDING TURN. EXAM OF THE ACFT TRIM SYSTEM SHOWED THAT THE ACFT WAS TRIMMED FOR LEVEL FLIGHT. THERE WAS NO VOICE OR FLIGHT DATA RECORDER ON BOARD.
Fairchild SA227-AC
February 19, 1988AccidentHull loss
On February 19, 1988, an AVAir Inc. Fairchild Metro III, registration N622AV, operating as Air Virginia flight 3378, crashed in Cary, North Carolina, shortly after departing Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU). The airplane struck water near the shoreline of a reservoir about 5,100 feet west of the midpoint of runway 23R.
Swearingen SA227 Metro III · 12 fatalities
The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was a failure of the flight crew to maintain a proper flightpath. Contributing to the accident were the ineffective management and supervision of flight crew training and flight operations, and ineffective FAA surveillance of AVAir. Full accident record