How likely is serious injury or death after engine out in a single?

[PeterNSteinmetz]

So it looks like the odds of an engine just failing are about 10-20 per 100k hours of flight.

That is not much for the typical GA pilot over their lifetime or for people training and just moving on to turbines. But it adds up if you like flying small airplanes and accumulate several thousand hours.

While it is often said that engine out emergencies are very survivable if you land in control, which is undoubtedly true, I am wondering what the odds of serious injury or death in this situation might be.

Paging @Bob Noel.

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

There is also this article - https://www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/2/1/10

 

[Jim Logajan]

There is also this article - https://www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/2/1/10

Interesting article. I started reading through the likelihood of failure of engine subsystems (e.g. cams, crankshaft, magnetos, etc.) and looked at its supporting references. One of the main sources it almost quoted verbatim was this one by Mike Busch:

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2014/april/09/how-do-piston-aircraft-engines-fail