“We used to joke that the purpose of the second engine was to get you to the scene of the crash faster after the first engine failed.”
Never heard that but the old twin prop planes were hard to handle with an engine failure on take off.
Made worse due to lack of pilot training on that scenario.
Spent a lot of time on one of those doing airborne electronics testing. Never actually had a problem ... our aircraft provider had an absolutely brilliant maintenance team. We joked anyway ... operating out of the boonies adjusts your attitude.