Interesting that you should raise this...
On the "what planes have you seen?" thread over on Spectators Balcony last week, I commented about a nice C185 I noticed at Narsarsuaq Airport on one of my occasional glances at their webcams to see if anything interesting is passing through. The aircraft was being ferried from Europe to the USA and a couple of days later I saw on the ASN site that it had been involved in a sadly fatal crash while landing at Bangor in Maine.
A video of the accident has now surfaced on ASN ...
I guess it's easy to say he should have just pulled the mixture and mags, accepted a trundle into the fence and let insurance pay for repairs or a replacement... but...