As always....Luck trumps skill every time. Being good is fine....being lucky is gooder!
You remind me
SAS of a chap who had a 206 go quiet on him while flying over the jungles of New Guinea, had a photo of the 206 ending up in a vertical position nose down with the cockpit four feet or so above ground level, a lawn dart that didn't.
Never had an actual engine fail on me in 48 years
Some have all the luck
Shy, in all my days of singles only had one fail, it was expected because we took off with zero engine oil pressure, a necessity at the time because of being shot at, two failures in the 76C, No #2 first then a couple of years later #1 in the very same aircraft, we had a total of four failures with Turbomecas in the fleet of six - cause blades in the hot end departing because of fatigue at the blade root, no initiating factor found by the experts, we worked the aircraft hard in as much as many heavy take off/landings per hour.