[4]: 13 AVAir Flight 3378 took off from Raleigh–Durham International Airport at 21:25 local time and climbed to a height of 300 feet (91 m).

In the next 3 minutes, he cleared a Cessna to land, coordinated with the departure controller, and attempted to locate AVAir 3378.

[4][2] In 1993, the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) filed a petition against the findings of the investigation and asked it to be reconsidered.

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.