I am reminded of the fact that if you take all the fuel exhaustion events out of the engine 'failure' statistics actual forced landings from mechanical causes are
extremely rare.
If you take out the fuel exhaustion
and CFIT (scud running) accidents
and VFR-IMC loss of control accidents out of the overall GA statistics crashes in general become
exceedingly rare events.
How hard can it be?
Note I make no direct comment on this latest incident.