How to Use cockpit voice recorder in a Sentence

cockpit voice recorder

noun
  • The board said in a statement Sunday said the aircraft's cockpit voice recorder was found 8 feet deep at the site of impact.
    — Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The inspections concern the batteries being used in the cockpit voice recorder of the 737 Max planes.
    — Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 23 May 2024
  • 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
  • The cockpit voice recorder was overwritten after two hours.
    — David Koenig The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 16 June 2024
  • 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
  • Recordings from both the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder are missing, according to the report released Monday.
    — Hakyung Kate Lee, ABC News, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Also, the cockpit voice recorder transcriptions for both aircraft are ongoing, the NTSB says.
    — Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Synchronization work for the Black Hawk flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder is ongoing.
    — Alexandra Koch, Fox News, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Investigators got the cockpit voice recorder from the Alaska Airlines jet, but the recorder on the Southwest plane was overwritten after the plane took off.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • There are actually two of these remarkably sturdy devices: the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder.
    — Ben Finley, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Black boxes containing the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder from both aircraft have been recovered.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • In the case of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, the jet’s cockpit voice recorder data was overwritten because of it has only a two-hour capacity.
    — Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
  • 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 retrieved both the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder, which will be key to providing insight into the plane’s last moments.
    — Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 30 Dec. 2024
  • The flight data recorder was found partially damaged and the cockpit voice recorder was collected intact, officials said.
    — Joohee Cho, ABC News, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Homendy cited a provision, for example, that would require some aircraft to be fitted with a cockpit voice recorder capable of recording up to 25 hours.
    — Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The plane’s cockpit voice recorder was located at the site of initial impact, along with the airplane’s enhanced ground proximity warning system, which could also contain flight data.
    — Rebekah Riess, CNN, 6 Feb. 2025
  • South Korean authorities have completed the initial extraction of data for the cockpit voice recorder, but the flight data recorder was damaged and was to be sent to the United States for analysis, officials said Wednesday.
    — Afp, Fortune Asia, 2 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Investigators trying determine why an air ambulance plummeted into a neighborhood here last week were working with valuable tools Monday after announcing the cockpit voice recorder had been recovered from the site of the deadly crash.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025

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