one i'll never forget, was up in alaska on lake illimna being shuttled over to the alagnak by float plane well the weather was not so good 54deg 30mph winds, 3-4 ft waves on the lake the pilot decided to take off in the lake instead of the river waves comming over the prop couldn't see out the windshield well couldn't get on a plane so decieded to turn the plane around to get closer to the river where it was a little calmer the plane went uo on one float the wing half under the water water was coming through the emergency door one hand on the latch one hand on the seat belt release well he proceded to try again same results this time the plane blew all the way over luckly there were some people at the village to help out 3hrs of soaking wet had to fly back to anchorage a buy all new gear every thing we owned was under water