Useful Lesson
Friend walked away from a (self-induced) forced landing in a PA-28 in the Netherlands. Shortly after getting his PPL he was flying with his fiancee when he decided to demonstrate a simulated engine failure. At about 150' above his selected landing area he re-applied power and........... nothing. (Possible rich mixture cut-out per the investigators.)
Anyway, to cut a long story short, he missed his intended field entirely AND the one beyond it and finally got it down into a third field, crashing through a fence / ditch, sustaining substantial damage to undercarriage (one side collapsed) wing and engine (nose wheel collapsed). Fortunately they both walked away from it.
The moral here?
DON'T SELECT THE BEST EMERGENCY LANDING AREA. SELECT THE BIGGEST..........
She still married him!