[FabHK]

I had a partial engine failure in a fairly new fuel injected Cessna 172 during descent to landing... didn't overfly the airfield to check wind, but landed instead.

The article states:

> Luckily, the Cessna’s engine is about as reliable as aircraft engines gets.

Unfortunately, that's not that reliable. Statistics I've read (can't locate them now unfortunately) indicate about 2 to 10 inflight engine problems per 100,000 hours, which doesn't sound a lot. But if you fly two hours a weekend, making 1000 hours over a decade, that's a 2 to 10% chance of encountering engine problems right there.