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

The data ended while the plane was still at 26,000 feet (7,900 meters) of altitude after the flight recorder and all the plane’s hydraulic systems lost power, but the report of the 12 minutes before that suggests what happened. —ABC News, 7 May 2026

Readings from the plane's flight recorders showed the engines were shut down by hand, and the autopilot was turned off as well, according to The Times. —Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 4 May 2026

An enhanced information pipeline will also allow scientists on Earth to regularly receive critical mission data from the flight recorder rather than having to wait for Orion to land to recover them. —Adam Bluestein, Scientific American, 5 Apr. 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

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