auraflyer, quote:
"I wonder if tapes might, for example, impede the recorders escaping the fuselage (by snagging on things) where they might otherwise escape & hence make them more susceptible to fire damage? It's such an obvious idea, I kind of wonder if they haven't already considered and rejected it for some other reason?"
I also wondered. It would have to be capable of breaking off in extremis, but wrapped so neatly that it was unlikely to catch on anything. So how would it then deploy?
If detached, it could end up anywhere and would be quite a red-herring (sorree), but worse problems than that have dogged this search...