"I couldn't get the seat belt undone."

From the Honolulu Advertiser:

"At the time I didn't know it was engine failure. I immediately thought it was enemy fire," Boushey said from a wheelchair. "I saw a dirt road off to the side and figured I could make it, but I didn't." The helicopter went down in a ditch — a blessing, Boushey said, because the water helped suppress an engine fire.

"I couldn't get the seat belt undone. Water was up to my neck. I started to panic a little bit," he said. Boushey said his leg was pinned and he knew fuel was leaking. "I could smell it and taste it," he said.