Interestingly, that fatal Diamond accident was a rental plane out of my home airport. The FBO operator (previous one, not the current FBO) had recently purchased it and the person renting it decided to fly from Florida to Oregon without any sleep ending up in extremely bad weather, IFR and turbulence. Spoke to the owner about it - If you could do every thing wrong, that guy did it. They never found the plane - just a few things that floated. I know conspiracy theories should be only blogged in the Hangar Talk forum, but I had this vision that the pilot and the plane ended up in South America with an unknowing ex-wife still residing in North America - but the FBO guy said they did find a few items that were identifiable (serialized?). Anyway, the insurance company paid out - but the FBO did not have adequate insurance and the they never bought another Diamond to replace that one.one into the Pacific approaching the shore on a low IFR approach after a long day into Crescent City
So bottom line for this Engine Failure discussion - that engine ran perfectly fine right up until the pilot's total disregard of risk caught up with him. Sad....