The crash the original poster described was a Cessna 205 (the small
tail, underpowered 206).

Yup...dunno why I was thinking it was a C-210.
Here is the accident report.

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...08X07972&key=1


-John
*You are nothing until you have flown a Douglas, Lockheed, Grumman or North
American*