How to Use cockpit voice recorder in a Sentence

cockpit voice recorder

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  • One reason for a lack of a probable cause is that the cockpit voice recorder has not yet been located and studied.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Nov. 2018
  • Local officials say a flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder have been retrieved from the site of the crash of a passenger plane in Nepal.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The helicopter wasn’t required to have a cockpit voice recorder or a flight data recorder and didn’t have either, Graham said.
    — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Investigators were unable to find a cockpit voice recorder or flight data recorder at the crash site.
    — USA TODAY, 22 June 2023
  • The jet was destroyed, and while it was equipped with a cockpit voice recorder that could shed light on what happened onboard, the device has not been recovered, according to the report.
    — Ian Duncan, Washington Post, 21 June 2023
  • Searchers found the plane’s cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder on Monday, and combed through debris scattered down a gorge in search of the people who remain missing, but are presumed dead.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2023
  • In each case, the cockpit voice recorder, known as one of the black boxes, was overwritten, preventing investigators from hearing what took place on the flight deck.
    — Pete Muntean, CNN, 15 Mar. 2023
  • According to the report, maintenance inspection records showed that the jet was equipped with a cockpit voice recorder that could reveal what may have happened onboard.
    — USA TODAY, 22 June 2023
  • Investigators have not located the cockpit voice recorder.
    — USA TODAY, 22 June 2023
  • Homendy said that after the aircraft returned to Portland International Airport, no one pulled the circuit breaker on the cockpit voice recorder or otherwise preserved the audio, which holds only its most recent two hours.
    — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Federal safety investigators will analyze weather data as well as information from the plane’s flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, the NTSB said.
    — Michael Laris, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Officials have recovered both black boxes, the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder, said a spokesperson for Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport.
    — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023

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