Surely with today's technology where a £10.00 mp3 player can store my entire music collection a cvr with 2 hour capacity that requires a fuse to be pulled by the pilot to save information that might incriminate him is archaic at best.
If RR engines can phone home for a health check and monitoring couldn't the cvr store 24 hours of data that any ATC or aviation authority could command the plane to transmit following a mayday or any terrain / pull up warning? Of course it [I]could[I] be done quite easily, if lost cvr are as big an issue as the program made out.