also crash land
( crash-lands, crash-landing, crash-landed)
If a pilot crash-lands an aircraft, or if it crash-lands , it lands more quickly and less safely than usual, for example when there is something wrong with the aircraft, and it cannot land normally.
He arrives in his biplane and crash lands it in a tree...
A light aircraft crash-landed on a putting green yesterday.
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• crash-landing
(crash-landings)
His plane made a crash-landing during a sandstorm yesterday.
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