trdracer I'll buy most of that, and I'm already saying 10 Hail Mary's for forgetting the rule about having different teams work on each engine of an ETOPS aircraft.
It's a discussion that's going nowhere, you have your very valid views and I have my reservations. Like, for example, that specific rule (different maintenance teams). Why only ETOPS? If a potential cause of error is one team working on both engines, surely passengers and crew in non-ETOPS aircraft are entitled to having the risk eliminated on the aircraft they are sitting in? To widen the argument, the inference to be drawn from most of the regulations for ETOPS is that non-ETOPS aircraft have a lower standard of maintenance. That cannot be acceptable.