This is a really good instructional video for us non pilots
Don't agree.
He had plenty of opportunity to land on airport property, intersecting runway, grass or taxiway.
That field being where it was, pure coincidence.
This is why you do an 'abort-plan' so you don't have to improvise your way through it.
N735EU is (or was) a 1977 C182Q with a O-470
Pictures here:
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