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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA68A0045

1968-01-02 BELLINGHAM, Washington, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8051X

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172B

Year of manufacture

1961 · 7 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-300 SER (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19610512

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AAF701

Registrant of record

REEVES MICHAEL

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8051X Cessna 172B Fatal

Historical record (pre-1982)

NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.

Aircraft

CESSNA 172B · N8051X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,362 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

317

Age

37

Investigator remarks

FLOAT EQUIPPED. WIND CALM ON LAKE.

Cause factors

64/A/25 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/J/H J
TERRAIN GLASSY WATER Joint cause
88/J/88 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0104. Source file NTSB_1968_3_0104.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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