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Why seatbelts could be bad in float planes....

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"They did everything they could to try to save his wife," he said. " She was locked into her seatbelt, and just because of the position of the airplane and so on, it was impossible."

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2009/07/14/kluane-lake-crash.html

Is this a common problem with floatplane fatalities? Just wondering. I have nothing against seatbelts. But I don't know about wearing them on floatplanes. How did they deal with this during WWII carrier landings?
 

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