Student pilot smoothly performs dead stick landing - GIF

[Frank S]

AT least you might have a chance to locate a suitable landing spot. But when you loose your engine just after take off on small rural runways you might not have enough altitude to pick a landing area, let alone make a turn about back to the runway.
I saw that happen to an instructor friend of mine teaching a student to to touch and go's they managed to land on a 1 lane gravel road but just barely got stopped before 1 of the wings was about to hit a tree