Sentences with phrase «flight recorder»

Flight recorder of the plane that crashed in Egypt killing 224 people has yet to be analysed, but a tracking website may have captured its last moments

The story follows Amanda, daughter of Sigourney Weaver's Ellen Ripley character, as she is invited to Sevastopol Station to retrieve the Nostromo's recently recovered flight recorder.

The texts that are such a crucial part of Johnson's work are sometimes written by him and at other times appropriated from disparate sources such as People magazine, pulp fiction, celebrity autobiographies, black box flight recorders, and rock lyrics.

Longer - lasting underwater pings Flight recorders carry an underwater location device that emits an ultrasound pulse once a second for 30 days after it is submerged.

They are in other words a kind of flight recorder waiting to be opened in the event that Trans Mountain crashes in spectacular fashion.

Smarter black boxes Why do aircraft flight recorders not routinely stream their data via satellite to servers on the ground?

Flight recorders vary widely, but the latest models record more than 100 aspects of an aircraft's behaviour, such as which way the rudder is pointing and the plane's speed.

They based their charge of recklessness on computer simulations and faulty flight recorder data, doubting the judgment of a 40 - year veteran who had actually handled the two - engine Airbus many times and understood the machinery and timing.

Bristol based artist Mariele Neudecker talks about how Cern inspires her, why you shouldn't call her a climate change artist and why flight recorders are like the human soul.

The case was largely about whether a Coroner could order disclosure of the transcript and / or recording from a cockpit flight recorder by virtue of her powers under the Coroners and Justice Act 2009.

Developed fully - automated test software in C / LabVIEW for new product line of digital flight recorders.

Lead Software Engineer responsible for leading embedded development efforts of deployable flight recorder technologies for customers in the United States, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, and Canada.

Comedian George Carlin once said, «If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole airplane made out of that stuff?»

Flight recorders have been secured, Sumwalt said.

The plane's flight recorders have also been secured and will be returned to the NTSB's headquarters near Washington, D.C. immediately, he said.

The search is now focused on finding the plane's flight recorders, the Associated Press news agency reports.

WHEN aircrash investigators of the future retrieve a flight recorder from the wreckage of a plane they may have the woodpecker to thank for the survival of the flight data.

Questions on the safety of modern aircraft raised in your report on the loss of an airliner in the mid-Atlantic on 1 June may never be answered if the plane's «black box» flight recorders can not be found (13 June, p 19).

Whether that was due to terrorism, a cockpit emergency such as a fire that prevented a mayday being broadcast, a sudden, catastrophic break - up of the airplane, or some kind of pilot error, can only be ascertained from the flight recorders.

It is sending a ship - towed device to its fleet in the Indian Ocean — one that can listen out for the ultrasonic signal from the downed aircraft's flight recorders.

The Australian ship Ocean Shield seems to have detected ultrasonic pings from both flight recorders aboard the plane, which has been missing since 8 March.

Sully is about the scene near the end when, after listening to the flight recorder, Sully says to his co-pilot that he was proud of them for doing their jobs.

She finds herself on this city - sized space - station after a group of salvagers find the flight recorder to her mother's ship, The Nostromo, 15 years after her disappearance at the end of the original film.

Australia's global achievements include the «black box» flight recorder, now on every airplane, the annual «Earth Hour Initiative» and even the invention of wi - fi.

The title of Syed's book is a reference to the «black box» flight recorder.

It means that the government wants a flight recorder style device installed in cars.

The Nostromo's flight recorder has been discovered during a salvage operation and Amanda begins a desperate battle for survival on a mission to uncover what happened to her mother and to the ultimate fate of the Nostromo.

Ripley is approached by a Weyland - Yutani synthetic, Christopher Samuels, who informs her that the flight recorder from the Nostromo was recently discovered by a ship named the Anesidora and is being held aboard the Seegson Corporation owned station, Sevastopol.

She is a well - schooled engineer and soon learns of a mission to recover the flight recorder from Nostromo.

Amanda is given the opportunity to investigate the disappearance of her mother, joining Samuels and Taylor on a trip to the Sevastopol, a space station that holds the flight recorder from her mother's ship, the Nostromo.

It's been fifteen years since Ellen Ripley's disappearance on the Nostromo, and when the possibility of finding the flight recorder to her ship comes around, Amanda Ripley, Ellen's daughter, is tasked with obtaining it and finding any lead she can.

Airplane «black boxes», or flight recorders (FDRs, CVRs, and CVDRs), are not actually black but bright orange (to make them easier to locate at the crash site).