Never heard that story,did you glide it down?did you get it restarted?did you jump with a chute
The short version is this. It was a beautiful November day and I thought I'd take my son who was about 12 flying and teach him a bit about navigation. There was an airport in Indiana that had cheap gas, so we flew there, had a coke, filled up, and I took off. I was climbing out and the engine which had been newly rebuilt seemed to be laboring. I reached about 2,000 feet above ground level and it was missing notably. I made a mayday call at that point and was trying to reach Richmond, Indiana airport, and about 3 miles north of that the engine seized, quite dramatically, shook the plane, and quit. I dead sticked into a soy bean field that was cleared.
Made the Dayton 11 o'clock news, caused quite a ruckus.
The hilarious thing is we eventually got a flat bed tow truck out into the soy bean field and got the Cessna on the bed and tied it down and drove it to the airport with a police escort shutting down the road. I got the tow bill, I was treasurer for the flying club, and it was $200. Only in rural Indiana.
The engine had a new cylinder in it, and apparently the rings were seated improperly. That cylinder melted down, I have photos of it somewhere. Broke the crank.
You basically land dead stick anyway if you set it up right. I had barely enough room in that field, which was muddy, and I was skidding while braking a bit, you can brake each wheel independently. I did not want to ground loop, and didn't. Made for an interesting log entry in my book.