Flagship Airlines Flight 3379

Flagship Airlines Flight 3379 was a scheduled flight under the American Eagle branding from Piedmont Triad International Airport to Raleigh–Durham International Airport during which a British Aerospace Jetstream crashed while executing a missed approach to the Raleigh–Durham International Airport on the evening of Tuesday, December 13, 1994. The two pilots and 13 passengers died in the crash; five passengers survived with serious injuries.^[1][3]

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (October 2023) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the French article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 1,626 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Vol Flagship Airlines 3379]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|Vol Flagship Airlines 3379}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Quick Facts Accident, Date ...

Flagship Airlines Flight 3379

A Flagship Airlines Jetstream 32, similar to the one involved.
Accident
Date	December 13, 1994
Summary	Pilot error; loss of control[1]
Site	Morrisville, near Raleigh–Durham International Airport, North Carolina, United States of America 35°50′05″N 78°52′01″W
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Jetstream 32
Operator	Flagship Airlines dba American Eagle
Call sign	EAGLE FLIGHT 379[2]
Registration	N918AE
Flight origin	Piedmont Triad International Airport
Destination	Raleigh–Durham International Airport
Occupants	20
Passengers	18
Crew	2
Fatalities	15
Injuries	5
Survivors	5

Close

The flight route from Greensboro to Raleigh is about 70 miles (110 km). Observers at the crash scene said it was foggy and sleeting. The airport reported a temperature of 37 °F (3 °C) with steady drizzle.^[3]

The crew for Flight 3379 were Captain Michael Hillis, 29, and First Officer Matthew Sailor, 25.^[4]

The aircraft was manufactured in 1991 and had logged 6,577 flying hours.^[5]

On October 24, 1995, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released their report on the crash. The crash was blamed on Captain Hillis incorrectly assuming that an engine had failed. Hillis also failed to follow approved procedures for engine failure single-engine approach, go-around, and stall recovery. Flagship Airlines management was blamed for failing to identify, document, monitor, and remedy deficiencies in pilot performance and training.^[2][6]

In May 2016, a memorial was dedicated at Carpenter Park in Cary, NC, USA to the passengers, crew, families, and responders of both Flight 3379 and AVAir Flight 3378, which crashed near the RDU Airport while doing business as American Eagle in 1988.^[7]

The crash was featured on season 22 of the Canadian documentary series Mayday, in the episode titled "Turboprop Terror".^[8]