SEA83LA112 · Cessna 180H
Cessna 180H and Cessna 172M · Accident: loss of control on ground/water during landing
Event
- NTSB case
- SEA83LA112
- 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
Aircraft 1 · Cessna 180H
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 180
- 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
- N2429F
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Anacortes Airport (74S), Anacortes, WATo S08 · BLAKELY ISLAND, WA
- 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 · flare/touchdown
- 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
Aircraft 2 · Cessna 172M
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 172
- 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
- N80202
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From 3S2 · Aurora, ORTo SO8 · BLAKELY ISLAND, WA
- 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
- Standing · engine(s) operating
- 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
- On ground/water collision with object
- 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 › Compensation for wind conditions, improper
- Pilot in command › Directional control, not maintained
- Pilot in command › Ground loop/swerve, inadvertent
- Pilot of other aircraft › Compensation for wind conditions, improper
- Pilot of other aircraft › Directional control, not maintained
- Pilot of other aircraft › Ground loop/swerve, inadvertent
Not plotted · Location withheld: coordinates are missing, conflicting, invalid, or have no accepted acquisition method. No substitute location has been invented.
NTSB narrative
A CESSNA 180H, N2429F, WAS BEING LANDED ON RWY 19 AFTER A CESSNA 172M, N80202, HAD JUST LANDED, THE CESSNA 180 PLT STATED THAT DURING ARRIVAL, THE WIND SOCKS AT THE ENDS OF THE RWY WERE SWINGING IN ALL DIRECTIONS & THERE WAS LIGHT TO MODERATE TURBULENCE. ACCORDING TO HIM, THE CESSNA 180 ENCOUNTERED A GUST OF WIND AFTER A SLIGHT BOUNCE DURING TOUCHDOWN, THEN THE ACFT SWERVED OFF THE RWY. SUBSEQUENTLY, THE CESSNA 180 COLLIDED WITH THE RIGHT WING OF THE CESSNA 172 THAT HAD JUST LANDED. THE CESSNA 172 PLT REPORTED THAT HIS PASSENGERS & BAGGAGE HAD BEEN UNLOADED & HE WAS WAITING ON THE TAXIWAY FOR THE OTHER ACFT TO LAND & CLEAR THE RWY. THE CESSNA 180 PLT ESTIMATED THAT THE WINDS WERE PRIMARILY FROM THE NORTH AT APRX 15 GUSTING 20 KTS. THE 1148 WINDS AT BELLINGHAM, WA WERE FROM 040 DEG AT 12 KTS.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record SEA83LA112
- Event ID
- 20001214X43161
- Case number
- SEA83LA112
- 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: e4114ad6a9b526b03696684af0fcf62eaec1e68d3d393bab5b0da2a485b0a43f; retrieved 2026-09-23T22:07:34.744Z.