From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcrash landingˌcrash ˈlanding, crash-landing noun [countable] TTAan occasion when a pilot has to bring a plane down to the ground in a sudden and dangerous way because the plane has a problem He was forced to make a crash-landing in the desert. —crash-land verb [intransitive, transitive]
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crash landing• He says that wasn't bad for a crash landing.• Read in studio A glider pilot has suffered a broken leg in a crash landing at an R-A-F base.• An unnecessary signal: the radios had been dead since the crash landing. 