sounds like he was on take off, it was an amphibian
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"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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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.