Someone highlighted that there have been 228 Malibu accidents as a statistic, now statistics are there to be used or abused for whatever purpose.
If the flight had taken place in a King Air you would all be saying " The King Air is a very capable aircraft well suited to this kind of trip " but if you look at the accident statistics of the King Air it shows 410 King Air accidents in the same database as the 228 Malibu accidents are listed in.