Originally Posted by
Asturias56
The US magazine "Flying" runs an "Aftermath" column on private aircraft accidents and that's a point they make regularly - if everything stops you have no choices - but "intermittent" means people often keep going in the hope it'll get better - or rather that their choices will improve.
They often don't
Indeed. Only aircraft accident I've ever watched in person was a civvy chap trying to go around with a rough running/intermittent engine he'd just fluffed a PFL with, rather than put his (literally brand new, first flight from the factory) aircraft on the grass at the end of the 6000' runway he missed the first 5000' of!