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cockpit

[kok-pit] / ˈkɒkˌpɪt /
NOUN
pilot compartment
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Another pilot assigned to the return flight who was also on board "noticed the cockpit door opening and closing repeatedly in an unusual manner", according to the findings.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

A pilot’s suspected attempt to crash a Boeing 737 MAX bound for Israel shows how one of aviation’s biggest safety threats is in the cockpit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

A pilot’s suspected attempt to crash a Boeing BA -0.79%decrease; down pointing triangle 737 MAX bound for Israel shows how one of aviation’s biggest safety threats is in the cockpit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

He wrote that “somebody in that Delta cockpit lost spatial awareness near an object roughly the size of a condominium building with wings.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

She imagined how she would describe it to Babcia, the silvery black paint, the cream leather interior, the dashboard that looked like the cockpit of a spaceship.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

Based in a converted Second World War hangar overlooking San Francisco Bay, the start-up makes self-flying aircraft without cockpits, designed either to spray crops or deliver cargo.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

One option, he said, is for the technology to be added to pilots’ tablet computers mounted in cockpits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

It also plans to embed more artificial intelligence, including in its central computing and software, in its vehicle cockpits, and via an autonomous driving system.

From Barron's ● May 21, 2026

In the cockpits, though, they are very different, as a consequence of the biggest regulation change in the sport's history.

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026

The flares were kept where the aircrew could reach them, and their explosions told Larisa that the flames had already reached the cockpits of the burning Po-2.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein


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