Originally Posted by
pithblot
Hmm... not sure about bouncing, he ripped the landing gear off on a breakwater nowhere near the airport. That ones more like the video of the Bonanza scudding through low cloud and hits a tree with the wing tip. Almost like the divinities giving you a warning shot across the bow for being stupid.
As for the Multi vs single engine. Its more of an obvious comfort factor than a real safety feature with modern engines and yes, many times the pilot has been caught out and crashed due to asymmetry, so you have to think how many single engine craft would have crashed given the same flying and hours. And then if you have two or more are pilots/engineers more likely to accept ageing/poor engines with lower margins that could fail more often. There is so many variables, however the flying public will always see more engines as better insurance and jets better than props (regardless of whether its a turbine driving the prop).