flight bag
noun
1
: a lightweight travel bag with zippered outside pockets
2
: a small canvas satchel
Examples of flight bag in a Sentence
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After an interview, pilots could receive a conditional employment offer, a Spirit electronic flight bag and mentorship within the airline.
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Alexandra Skores, Dallas News, 9 May 2023
The pilot’s flight bag and part of the instrument panel as well.
—Joy Williams, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
No pilot’s flight bag, no black box, and the navigation panel has been pulled from the instrument board.
—Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2022
The pilot’s flight bag is gone.
—Nicholas Mancusi, Time, 24 Oct. 2022
And the pilot’s flight bag and the data box are missing from the cockpit.
—Ron Charles, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022
All saved in a vintage airline flight bag.
—Linda Solomon, Freep.com, 19 Dec. 2020
When one of the crew fat fingered a login to what’s known as an electronic flight bag, the flightdeck equipment repeatedly got an HTTP 302 Redirect error to the Wi-Fi service login page.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 5 Aug. 2020
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Alexandra Skores, Dallas News, 9 May 2023
The pilot’s flight bag and part of the instrument panel as well.
—Joy Williams, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
No pilot’s flight bag, no black box, and the navigation panel has been pulled from the instrument board.
—Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2022
The pilot’s flight bag is gone.
—Nicholas Mancusi, Time, 24 Oct. 2022
And the pilot’s flight bag and the data box are missing from the cockpit.
—Ron Charles, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022
All saved in a vintage airline flight bag.
—Linda Solomon, Freep.com, 19 Dec. 2020
When one of the crew fat fingered a login to what’s known as an electronic flight bag, the flightdeck equipment repeatedly got an HTTP 302 Redirect error to the Wi-Fi service login page.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 5 Aug. 2020
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“Flight bag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flight%20bag. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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