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Topic: AIR

crash landing

 noun
     
crash landing, crash-landing [countable]
TTA an 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 and transitive]
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