flight recorder
noun
: a crashworthy instrument for recording flight data (such as airspeed and altitude)
Examples of flight recorder in a Sentence
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Workers at the crash site have recovered the flight recorders, the Russian Investigative Committee said Friday.
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Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
The plane is not required to have a flight recorder.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
The other flight recorder, presumably the one whose recovery was announced on Sunday, is used to store information about the plane’s motion, speed, altitude and mechanical performance.
—New York Times, 27 Mar. 2022
On Friday, several Chinese media outlets mistakenly reported that searchers had found the second flight recorder.
—New York Times, 27 Mar. 2022
Hundreds of people in rain gear and rubber boots searched muddy, forested hills in southern China on Thursday for the second flight recorder from a jetliner that crashed with 132 people aboard.
—NBC News, 24 Mar. 2022
Accident investigators should be able to find more precise speed data from the jet’s flight recorder.
—Alan Levin and Mary Schlangenstein/bloomberg, Time, 23 Mar. 2022
The Times compares it to the flight recorder of a plane that records the craft’s final moments before crashing so that investigators can determine what went wrong.
—Outside Online, 28 Dec. 2021
Milan Prosecutor Tiziana Siciliano told reporters at the scene of the accident that the plane didn't send out an alarm and the flight recorder had been retrieved, the AP reported.
—Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 4 Oct. 2021
Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
The plane is not required to have a flight recorder.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
The other flight recorder, presumably the one whose recovery was announced on Sunday, is used to store information about the plane’s motion, speed, altitude and mechanical performance.
—New York Times, 27 Mar. 2022
On Friday, several Chinese media outlets mistakenly reported that searchers had found the second flight recorder.
—New York Times, 27 Mar. 2022
Hundreds of people in rain gear and rubber boots searched muddy, forested hills in southern China on Thursday for the second flight recorder from a jetliner that crashed with 132 people aboard.
—NBC News, 24 Mar. 2022
Accident investigators should be able to find more precise speed data from the jet’s flight recorder.
—Alan Levin and Mary Schlangenstein/bloomberg, Time, 23 Mar. 2022
The Times compares it to the flight recorder of a plane that records the craft’s final moments before crashing so that investigators can determine what went wrong.
—Outside Online, 28 Dec. 2021
Milan Prosecutor Tiziana Siciliano told reporters at the scene of the accident that the plane didn't send out an alarm and the flight recorder had been retrieved, the AP reported.
—Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 4 Oct. 2021
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“Flight recorder.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flight%20recorder. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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