Like most countries aside from the U.S., Canadian law precludes the public disclosure of any dialogue from the cockpit recordings.

Transcripts of cockpit recordings confirm this.

There was no warning of the explosion on the cockpit recording then.

China Airlines, the majority of which is owned by a government foundation, and Boeing both declined to comment today on the cockpit recording.

On the cockpit recording, the copilot, Cary W. Kirkland, says he checked the flaps and they were in the right position.

The cockpit recordings from United Flight 93 and from a small private plane that tracked the doomed jet have not been made public.

What they said is not yet known; a cockpit recording of the flight's last half hour will be released in several weeks.

He remembered what he had read about the cockpit recordings from the 9/11 attacks.

The cockpit recording had struck a chord in him, sending him to his library.