cockpit

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Audio recordings from the cockpit captured one pilot asking the other why he had "cut-off" and the other replying that he had not.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

For a year, the families of the victims have lived with unanswered questions: what happened in the cockpit, why the aircraft lost thrust, whether the disaster was human error, mechanical failure or something else entirely.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

GKN Aerospace is a division of Melrose Industries, a U.K.-based aerospace company that manufactures aircraft parts such as engines, cockpit cabin windows and landing gear for civil and military aircraft.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

While most of the other pilots were interested in aerobatics, Dallin volunteered to take on a reconnaissance mission with a camera mounted behind the cockpit.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

Zhenya Prokhorova, the aerobatic pilot who’d discovered the mice in her cockpit, was flying one of these planes.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein