- Date
- June 10, 1988, 19:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Robbinsville, NJ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N97954Stinson 108-1
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 24, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880610030319A
- Case key
- 36186
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The acft ground looped during landing roll and collided with terrain off the runway. The acft was landed on rwy 29 with the wind from 180 degrees at 15 KTS, gusting to 25 KTS. The acft turned into the wind and ran off the rwy to the south after traveling 1/3 of the rwy length. The plt had logged only 20 hrs in this acft since jan 1984. The acft was owned by the plt.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N97954
- Reported as
- Stinson 108-1
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 108-1-954
- Airframe hours
- 1,820
- Engine
- Franklin 6A4-150, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Curtis Johnson
- Registered owner
- Curtis Johnson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 10, 1987
- Departed
- Blairstown, NJ
- Destination
- Robbinsville, NJ
- Airport
- N87 · Trenton Robbinsville, runway 29, 4,290 × 80 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 50
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 300 total · 300 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 15 knots, gusting 25
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N97954 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.