copilot

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Recent Examples of copilot An Air Canada jet carrying more than 70 passengers collided with a fire truck while landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport late Sunday, killing the pilot and copilot and injuring several others, officials said. Arkansas Online, 24 Mar. 2026 The pilot and copilot who died in the first fatal crash at LaGuardia in 34 years were both based out of Canada, said Kathryn Garcia, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the airport. ABC News, 24 Mar. 2026 An Air Canada plane collided with a fire truck while landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport Sunday, killing the flight’s pilot and copilot, injuring dozens and temporarily shutting down the the New York area’s third-busiest airport, officials said. Gloria Pazmino, CNN Money, 23 Mar. 2026 The nose of the Air Canada plane was destroyed, and the pilot and copilot were killed. Jennifer Peltz, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for copilot
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Noun
  • For the past few years, much of the AI conversation has focused on chatbots, co-pilots and tools that generate text, images or code.
    Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • Gilbert, who was 10 years old when the pilot aired and 19 when the series wrapped, was often considered a standout of the cast.
    Kelly Martinez, Entertainment Weekly, 12 June 2026
Noun
  • Chief test pilot and company founder Miguel Iturmendi expects that figure to grow another 40% within two years.
    Omar Kardoudi June 12, New Atlas, 12 June 2026
  • On June 5, founder and chief test pilot Miguel Iturmendi conducted a series of short test flights at Zephyrhills Municipal Airport in central Florida aboard a modified Pipistrel Taurus motor glider designated as the Helios Horizon.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 10 June 2026
Noun
  • Three years later, he was designated as a naval aviator.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2026
  • Axiom Space’s Director of Human Spaceflight and former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson is the mission commander with aviator John Shoffner as pilot and two mission specialist seats paid for by the Saudi Space Commission, Rayyanah Barnawi and Ali AlQarni.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 June 2026
Noun
  • The game opens with a salvage mission gone awry where a fresh-faced British airman named James Bond survives a crash-landing behind enemy lines.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2026
  • Those killed in the March 12 crash include three active-duty airmen from the 6th Air Refueling Wing based in Tampa, Florida, and three National Guard airmen from the Ohio Air National Guard’s 121st Air Refueling Wing.
    Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
Noun
  • Isom, like his predecessor Doug Parker, is not a showman like the flyboys of past generations.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2026
  • For now, the flyboy will be resting in the barracks.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As a team, the Lightning (32-0) finished with 33 digs and recorded 13 aces to just nine errors.
    Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 10 June 2026
  • The ace could have pitched the ninth inning, but the team saw that his pitch count was at 99, and decided to roll Keaton Winn to close out Monday night’s game against the Washington Nationals.
    Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 9 June 2026

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