flight recorder
noun
an electronic device aboard an aircraft that automatically records some aspects of the aircraft's performance in flight.
Origin of flight recorder
1First recorded in 1945–50
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How to use flight recorder in a sentence
We’ll have a much clearer picture of what happened when the flight recorders are examined and the survivor is interviewed.
British Dictionary definitions for flight recorder
flight recorder
noun
an electronic device fitted to an aircraft for storing information concerning its performance in flight. It is often used to determine the cause of a crash: Also called: black box
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