flight recorder

noun

: a crashworthy instrument for recording flight data (such as airspeed and altitude)

Examples of flight recorder in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Investigators probing the deadly crash between an Air Canada jet and a Port Authority airport vehicle at a LaGuardia Airport runway over the weekend have a fuller picture of what went down after reviewing some of the flight recorder data. —Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 24 Mar. 2026

Investigators have recovered the cockpit flight recorder and the flight data recorder, National Transportation Safety Board member Todd Inman said, in hopes of finding out more about Tuesday's tragic accident just outside of Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. —Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 6 Nov. 2025

If telemetry or flight recorder data indicate anomalous electromagnetic activity, the findings may remain classified. —Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2025

Three officials from India’s National Disaster Response Force said the flight recorder had been located. —Jade Walker, CNN Money, 13 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1939, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for flight recorder

• boarder
• border
• corder
• order
• warder
• camcorder
• disorder
• reorder
• suborder
• transborder