Physicus.
Yes; all fatal crashes are tragic and we in the aviation business do our utmost to keep them to a minimum. However they do happen, and unfortunately will happen again, SEP or MEP. Statistically, using a single for these camps has very little more danger than using a multi, with the usual provisos for temperature and altitude.
However I was quite fascinated by your comment.
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physicus
Our flight induction was done in a twin, a P68. Whether that's any safer than a SEP I doubt, it just doubles the probability of an engine failure,
I was always under the impression that the idea of two engines was that, if we had a failure, we could usually expect to have one left to sort out our options.
I agree that sometimes with a heavy aeroplane we were definitely going to descend ('Drift down'), particularly from high flight levels.
In the earlier days, of course, one engine was usually only sufficient help to give more choice of landing area, think Anson or even a MTOM Twin Comanche.
That has obviously given me false confidence for something like 55 years !