Example sentences for: cockpit

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

  • Even so, rules implemented in the 1960s required air crews to keep the cockpit door closed and locked in flight.

  • Because several passengers on United 93 described three hijackers on the plane, not four, some have wondered whether one of the hijackers had been able to use the cockpit jump seat from the outset of the flight.

  • The hijackers had gained entry to the cockpit, and she did not know how.

  • The new data eliminate the possibility that a faulty thrust reverser induced the crash, but investigators say that they must recover the cockpit voice recorder to determine the cause.

  • Given that the cockpit crew of American 11 had been acknowledging all previous instructions from air traffic control that morning within a matter of seconds, and that when the first reporting of the hijacking was received a short time later (the 8:19 call from Betty Ong) a number of actions had already been taken by the hijackers, it is most likely that the hijacking occurred at 8:14 A.M.


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