............however it will take one single ditching of a twin due to mechanical failure to occasion a change in regulatory philosophy and passenger demand.
Will they make it illegal to fly over the GAF or the Bay of Biscay or The Sahara or the middle of Africa or the Andes for the same reason? Losing both engines on a twin would be equally as disastrous in those and many other places.
Most passengers do not even know what aircraft they are flying on let alone how many engines it has.
Good thing too when Mr. Branson starts ETOPS and has to remove his opportunist slogans as well.