can a pilot be ejected out of plane on a belly landing with seat belt still closed?

[Flyingkag]

Hey everyone,

I am curious to learn your opinion about that question.

A german witness described me the discovery of a crashed P-47, and the pilot he found on crash site.

he saw the plane "crash" with a very horizontal approach, that could have finished as a successfull belly-landing.

The plane dug a little trench (maybe 50cm deep, 20 to 50 meters long) in earth, before it exploded (fuel tanks) with a 50 meters high and one second time long flame.

the pilot was found near the first contact point (near the place where the plane first touched the ground), that means "before" the explosion place.

He was looking "as sleeping, with no visible wound".

Is it possible, according with his "intact looking body" to say if the pilot still had his seat belt closed as he was ejected out of the plane, as it touched the ground?

is it possible to conclude if the canopy still was over his head on moment the plane touched the ground. I never found one single plexiglas part in teh opened fields there...

A possible scenario being that he shoud have tried to bail out (had allredy opened seat-belt, jettisoned canopy...) ...but to late!

Thanks for any possible help;

Mathias