cockpit

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When the F-15E came under fire on Friday, the aircrew pulled their ejection handle, which blew the canopy, blasted the seats out of the cockpit and deployed their parachutes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

The NTSB's lead investigator Doug Brazy said the board was analyzing more than 25 hours of cockpit voice recordings and 80 hours of flight data.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

The sailor assigned to man the brakes in the cockpit and another who was towing the jet had to jump off at the last second.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

And in the cockpit was another legend, Fernando Alonso.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

They dashed to the crash site and used axes to chop a hole in the floor of the cockpit of the upside-down plane.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein