Originally Posted by
jcountry
Not difficult-at all.......
Just get a general idea of the location, and pull up ATC tapes-or hell, flight aware.
At most, they would have to pull two or three CVRs.
The difficulty is getting FCC employee to hang out all day in multiple facilities spread across the country. Then, after getting a list of locations they would have to find out which facility had the tapes, compare their locations with the radar returns. Then they have to figure out who was on the flight and get a warrant for the CVR (something ALPA would put up a fight for). I just find it hard to believe that any controller has time in their day to do this. If the FCC and FAA really cared they would actually do this, but like PED in the cockpit, they have bigger things to worry about.