Originally Posted by
WestCoastFlyr
I agree. I think the FAA knows that if they ever went after CVR/FDR data on the sole basis of assessing a violation to a crewmember, the ramifications of such an act would be huge, and we would be taking a big step backward in using such devices as a safety tool.
FAA has nothing to do with it in this case. It would be federal law enforcement. Whatever protections, by policy or precedent, may or may not apply to the FAA use of the CVR it is utterly not applicable to law enforcement.
Of course once law enforcement got a conviction, an FAA violation would presumably follow based on that alone.