Flight Data Recorder

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
FDR
Pronunciation
/flaɪt ˈdætə rɪˈkɔrdər/
Category
Governmental
Related Field
Military

Examples in Context

  1. According to the flight data recorder, all systems were working fine.
  2. Flight data recorder : A flight data recorder captures a flight's history.
  3. Meanwhile, at the scene of the crash, the retrieval of the black boxes ( the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder ) may only have symbolic significance and may have no real constructive role in determining the details of the crash.
  4. Following a jetliner accident, the media is quick to report on the search for the " black boxes," or the airplane's flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder.
  5. The bulk of the wreckage was located in April 2011, nearly two years later. The black boxes the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder were found a month after that.

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