In regards to your example, the chances of an engine failure in that 2 minutes of holding I think it FAR FAR FAR more likely that an accident may happen at a GAAP airport now that no longer has any airport firefighting service and that same family will die trapped in an aircraft before specialist help arrives.
Can't remember who made that affordable safety decision to save a couple of cents a litre in AVGAS charges....can anyone else?
If there was only one aircraft causing the 182 to hold at WLM, I'm sure they would have got an airways clearance. If they had planned or asked with enough time to organise it that is.
Are you also advocating the closure of all coastal routes because of the risk they pose? The end of the 500' beach run I guess.