ATL07CA059 · Stinson 108
Stinson 108 · Accident: loss of control on ground/water during landing
From Gwinnett County Briscoe Field (KLZU) to Gwinnett County Briscoe Field (KLZU)
Event
- NTSB case
- ATL07CA059
- 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
- Unknown
- 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
- 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
- N8384K
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Gwinnett County Briscoe Field (KLZU), Lawrenceville, GATo Gwinnett County Briscoe Field (KLZU), Lawrenceville, GA
- 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
- Landing · landing roll
- 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 control on ground/water
- 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 › Directional control, not maintained
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The airplane veered off the runway and ground looped. The pilot stated he made a visual approach to runway 25 and touched down on the main gear. The winds were calm. On touchdown the airplane veered to the left and departed the runway onto the grass. The airplane continued in a ground loop to the left before coming to a stop. The pilot stated he did not experience any mechanical problems with the airplane. Examination of the airplane revealed the right wing tip, right aileron tip, right wing root, right elevator tip, right main landing gear, and tail wheel were damaged.
Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control on landing roll out resulting in a ground loop.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ATL07CA059
- Event ID
- 20070522X00604
- Case number
- ATL07CA059
- 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: local date, investigation status, coordinates. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 2007-03-25.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 34fb3ed81f5fe54ecb795abfecd8dd9910e8d81f16929e6e72c2d162a9cb410e; retrieved 2026-09-22T03:57:18.137Z.