1 in a lighty about 10 years ago. Had a rather catastophic failure, piston punched through cylinder/engine case (I have a pre-digital age photo of it somewhere, will see if I can find it) However I was already on final and engine was at idle. I have always sought old (and sometimes bold!) pilots for my instructors and I was doing a nice tight circuit and a nice glide approach with the engine at idle, so I just dead sticked it in with no real change in attitude, aimpoint or airspeed. However it was the very first time I had seen a prop stopped in flight, that was different!
So unlike others here and the subject of this thread I was not tested at all.
Never did get to find out what caused it as I left the area shortly afterwards and the school I hired the aircraft from closed down (maybe this had something to do with it?).
Cheers
CB