totally stuffed by weather all around" scenario, it goes so severely against pilot psychology that very few people actually do it
It's interesting what people will do when they find themselves in extremis. A local guy in a 172 with 3 pax found himself inadvertently in IMC, lost control, popped out of the cloud base, regained control and found himself in a valley hemmed in on all sides by cloud. He would have flown around in the valley until fuel exhaustion, the weather being so bad with no escape route. The only avenue open to him he thought was to make a controlled "landing" into the canopy of the 150 foot forest and hope for the best. "Landing" completed the aircraft fell to the forest floor and all escaped with nothing more than scratches. They were subsequently winched out by one of our helos.