ATL83FA232 · Stinson 108-2
Stinson 108-2 · Accident: loss of engine power during initial climb
Event
- NTSB case
- ATL83FA232
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Stinson 108-2
- Aircraft type
- Stinson 108
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N9673K
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Initial climb
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Loss of engine power
- Also codedOther events the NTSB coded in the sequence, such as a wire strike after a loss of power. Flight Findings uses them for its kinds of event. Glossary
- Tree(s)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Reason for occurrence undetermined
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Laytonsville, MD, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE ACFT LOST POWER AT ABOUT 200 FT AGL DURING TAKEOFF. THE PILOT HAD JUST ABORTED A TAKEOFF BECAUSE THE POWER WENT TO IDLE WITH THROTTLE OPEN. AFTER A RUN-UP OF 30 SECONDS HE DECIDED TO TRY AGAIN. THE POWER LOSS OCCURRED AT ABOUT 200 FT AGL AND THE PILOT TRIED TO MAKE A 180 DEGREE TURN. THE ACFT HORIZONTAL STABILIZER CAUGHT A TREE LIMB NEAR THE RWY AND THE ACFT HIT HARD ON THE RIGHT MAIN LANDING GEAR. THE ACFT WAS NOT TOPPED OFF AFTER ITS PREVIOUS FLT. THE RIGHT FUEL TANK AT SOME TIME HAD BEEN CAPPED TO PREVENT LEAKING SO FUEL SAMPLES COULD NOT BE TAKEN FROM THIS TANK DURING PRE-FLT TEN GALLONS OF FUEL WAS ADDED TO EACH TANK PRIOR TO THE ACCIDENT FLT. THE TANK SELECTOR WAS ON THE RIGHT TANK FOR TAKEOFF. AFTER THE ACCIDENT NO WATER OR CONTAMINATES WERE FOUND IN THE FUEL SYSTEM. NO REASON FOR THE ENGINE MALFUNCTIONWAS FOUND. THE ACFT HAD NOT FLOWN SINCE 10/82.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ATL83FA232
- Event ID
- 20001214X43194
- Case number
- ATL83FA232
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: e8ab9cf35bbdd0dfec99b9150f4435d7171c6bee3b9d72b7bd096f53265615e1; retrieved 2026-09-22T02:38:12.684Z.