Example sentences for: co-pilot

How can you use “co-pilot” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Moreover, it is unlikely that the highly regarded and experienced pilot and co-pilot of Flight 93 would have allowed an observer into the cockpit before or after takeoff who had not obtained the proper permission.

  • While applauding co-pilot Brian Jones for overachieving, the media concluded in retrospect that the pilot, Bertrand Piccard, had been destined for greatness, since his grandfather was the first man to reach the stratosphere (in a balloon in 1931) and his father had attained the oceans' lowest depth (35,000 feet).

  • It's a mistake for the paper not to mention that just such nameless investigators were also behind now-discredited press reports in the Times and elsewhere that the black box tapes had the relief co-pilot saying, "I've made my decision now," shortly before the plane's terminal dive.

  • Heard on the cockpit voice recorder of EgyptAir Flight 990, this Arabic sentence--in English, "I put my trust in God"--was uttered by Gamil al-Batouti, the relief co-pilot, just before the autopilot was shut off and the flaps adjusted to send the plane into a dive.

  • The NYT and LAT report the source of the bias charge: The religious phrase used by a co-pilot shortly before the plane dived is a common one, used both in emergencies and before meals, and thus not necessarily an indication of suicide.


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