Originally Posted by
eng3
I remember this accident but don't recall anything about seatbelt problems.
I quickly scanned the report and it mentions "Most survivors were still in their seats and unbuckled their seat belts by themselves or were assisted by other passengers."
I haven’t done any additional research on this crash, but I don’t understand how the quote about survivors says anything to the fatalities.
OP stated that he believed most fatalities were drownings of people who could not get their seatbelt off. If anything, the quote you provided supports OP’s case- if most survivors were seated, belted, and able to unbuckle- most non survivors didn’t meet one of those three things.