"studentpilot" wrote in message ...

Know a bloke well with over 15'000 hours, he has had no engine failures.

My airplane has about 5500 hours over 50 years on it. It's had two fairly
major engine failures to my knowledge. I had the (mis)fortune of having
the second one which put an end to this engine (it's sitting in my basement
a new zero-time replacement is now installed).