Statistically I should now be safe for the next few hundred years
Hah! I know that I have been particularly unlucky, but I have had an engine failure approximately every 350 hours. Some of these have been on twins (including two on jets), but some have been on singles.
As
2D says, the statistics just cannot be relied on for predicting this kind of thing.
Here's an interesting statistic for you. In the past four years, 20% of my flights in singles have resulted in a ditching
Will