Originally Posted by
CraigCowden
Bad guy needs to be able to travel the world from his base in Europe so I'll need a different jet it seems.
CL-604 could do LHR-NYC, maybe even CDG-NYC if the winds were right, but it would be a stretch. Probably need a bigger jet.
Originally Posted by
CraigCowden
Good guy needs to be able to see where Bad guy has been but a smart Bad Guy will probably have his registration number blocked online. That being the case will air traffic control keep a record with the reg number? Is there a central body that collects that data or would Good Guy need to check with each possible airport controllers?
Developed countries would have a centralized computer system which hands traffic off from one control sector to another. I don't know how long records are kept but I bet it's a long time. Good guy would need government authority to access the info (or a good hacker). Third world might plausibly be different. International flights probably get special attention.
Originally Posted by
CraigCowden
Also. One other curve.... Bad guy is smuggling kidnapped kids into his country via the jet. He is using the excuse that it is an air ambulance as the kids are unconscious when they land. This may be out of your expertise but would that work with customs assuming the paperwork is in order?
Possibly. Once. With one patient. Assuming paperwork and backstory were airtight. You wouldn't get away with mass production...what are the odds that more than one patient is in a coma/sedated.
Human trafficking is a vast and global enterprise. Unlike say WMD smuggling, plenty of third-world officials are in on the action. But they normally smuggle people who nobody is going to miss and use low-profile methods. Flying into somebody's ADIZ in a G-V full of smuggled kiddies would not make sense, unless there is something very very special about the kids or the customers to justify the expense and complexity.