Sorry to revive an old thread.
http://www.pprune.org/dg-p-general-a...-grounded.html
The last few pages above and the frightening video are another fantastic example of where a pilot un-necessarily placed the aircraft in a terribly dangerous situation because of an infatuation with getting the aircraft back to the departure runway environment.
Sure, it wasn't an EFATO. But the power was insufficient to maintain level flight, and the aircraft was not over a built up area.
Rather than use the remaining power to find something with a few degrees from the runway heading, and touch down with control at low speed and full flap (45 knots/85km/hr), he banked the aircraft heavily, close to the ground, with the stall warning blaring for what seemed like a lifetime before landing.
I still can't help but think that landing straight ahead is not pushed enough, and that talking about (and showing videos) of turning back gives young, inexperienced pilots reason to think they can achieve the same thing without training, experience and a high performance airframe.
Another near-disaster because of the temptation to return to the runway.