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:

  • 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.

  • The NYT passes this theory along but spends most of its EgyptAir ink reporting that American crash investigators have been drawn to the role of the relief pilot not just for the reference he made to God shortly before the plane went down, but also because of the abrupt way he took the co-pilot's seat just minutes before the catastrophe.

  • The Egyptian government's objection to the impending FBI takeover of the EgyptAir 990 investigation--plus the mounting evidence that a co-pilot deliberately crashed the plane--leads at the New York Times , the Washington Post , and the Los Angeles Times (the Wall Street Journal also fronts a long article).

  • Also, shades of the dog who didn't bark, the Post reveals that investigators are paying close attention to what the praying co-pilot didn't say: "There was no shocked expletive or puzzled comment, as pilots typically make in an emergency or when highly computerized aircraft suddenly take action without pilot input."

  • At 9:22, after learning of the events at the World Trade Center, Melody Homer, the wife of co-pilot Leroy Homer, had an ACARS message sent to her husband in the cockpit asking if he was okay.


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