On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:25:18 GMT, Larry Dighera wrote:

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 16:04:00 -0700 (PDT), Phil J
wrote:

He was wearing it, but he somehow managed to 1) go to full throttle,
2) throw the controls to the left, and 3) snag his seat belt buckle
and unlatch it - all at the same time. Not a good thing in an
airplane without doors.

He must have been mighty low to have not suffered significant injury
in the fall.

AvWeb quotes a local newspaper interview with the pilot, which says "...a
pontoon hit the water, and somehow he accidentally released the buckle of his
safety harness." Sounds like it wasn't much of a vertical drop, but the
horizontal component would have been fun....

Ron Wanttaja