How to Use flight recorder in a Sentence
flight recorder
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Moscow has not yet returned the plane’s wreckage or the flight recorders.
—Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2018
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The news agency RIA Novosti later reported that one flight recorder had been found.
—Neil MacFarquhar and Ivan Nechepurenko, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2018
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Parts of the jet's tailfin were recovered shortly after the crash, and in early May pieces of its flight recorder and cockpit canopy were lifted from the ocean floor.
—Brad Lendon and Yoko Wakatsuki, CNN, 10 June 2019
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Planes carry two different flight recorder devices, called black boxes — the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder.
—Bloomberg.com, 22 Aug. 2020
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At first the broadcaster merely reported that its journalists had made an expedition to the site to locate the Boeing’s black-box flight recorder.
—The Economist, 20 Dec. 2019
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The Ukrainian government has repeatedly called on Tehran to release the plane’s flight recorders to a country that has the technology to decode their data.
—Golnar Motevalli, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
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Investigators, who are still trying to find out why the aging Boeing 737 went down, announced Saturday that the jet’s flight recorder had been recovered.
—Azam Ahmed, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2018
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The aircraft’s black box flight recorder was sent to Paris in June, where international investigators have been examining it.
—Bloomberg.com, 22 Aug. 2020
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The aircraft's black box flight recorder was sent to Paris in June, where international investigators have been examining it.
—Nasser Karimi, Star Tribune, 23 Aug. 2020
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Investigators in Europe will examine the Ethiopia Airline's flight recorder and voice data black boxes in the coming days, in an effort to determine if the two disasters are linked by a common flaw.
—Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2019
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Specialist ships and remotely operated underwater vehicles have been deployed to search for the plane’s hull and flight recorders.
—Stephen Wright, The Seattle Times, 30 Oct. 2018
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The report signals a new phase in the investigation into the crash, as the aircraft's black box flight recorder is due to be sent to Paris, where international investigators will finally be able to examine it.
—Fox News, 13 July 2020
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The report may signal a new phase in the investigation into the crash, as the aircraft’s black box flight recorder is due to be sent to Paris, where international investigators will finally be able to examine it.
—Amir Vahdat and Jon Gambrell, USA TODAY, 14 July 2020
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Hassan Rezaeifar, the head of the Iranian investigation team, said recovering data from the black box flight recorders could take more than a month and that the entire investigation could stretch into next year.
—Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2020
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Experts say that although an SUV like the Genesis has advanced computers and more pre-crash data are available, the computer data are not equivalent to the information on a jetliner’s flight recorder.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2021
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They are meant to inflict maximum pain on the Republican heartland, including recreational power boats made in Tennessee, digital flight recorders made in Arizona and playing cards made in Kentucky.
—Jack Ewing and Ana Swanson, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2018
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The investigation has also been marred by disagreements between Ukrainian and Iranian authorities, including over how to handle data from the flight recorder.
—Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2020
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Multiple robotic rays will network together into a self-coordinating swarm to sweep an area, whether surveying an area for pollutants, monitoring marine life, or hunting for a black-box flight recorder.
—David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 3 May 2018
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Physical evidence collected by investigators, along with radar track and flight recorder data, pointed to the use of a specific warhead type associated with Buk surface-to-air missiles.
—Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 25 May 2018
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