Heliduck,
You are quite correct of course, stats can be made to say whatever the presenter wishes them to say - partly the point I was making. And I accept fully that to you, at the time, the events were most significant indeed! But their significance merely prejudices YOU whilst still being of questionable mathematical significance. My own feelings are the same as yours though - after twenty years of flying and a life time's involvement, I also think pistons engines are less reliable than turbines. their very complexity seems to make it so! But will someone born today, after a lifetimes involvement with better piston engines, feel the same in forty years I wonder. And if the engines are so reliable, why do I have to practice a V1 cut every six months?? (rhetorical question!)
And yet, motor car piston engines seem to have reached almost clinical levels of reliability: and funnily enough, the CAA have nothing to do with cars. But that's probably a coincidence
keep it safe!
David