crash land

See also: crashland, and crash-land

English

Etymology

Back-formation from crash landing.

Verb

crash land (third-person singular simple present crash lands, present participle crash landing, simple past and past participle crash landed)

1. To land an aircraft or spacecraft in an emergency, either in an inappropriate place or under dangerous conditions; usually results in damage to the craft and the possibility of loss of life.

Translations

To land an aircraft or spacecraft in an emergency

• Bulgarian: кацам принудително (kacam prinuditelno)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 迫降 (zh) (pòjiàng)

• Danish: nødlande, forulykke
• Icelandic: brotlenda f
• Irish: tuirling de thuairt, tabhair chun talún de thuairt
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: krasjlande

  Nynorsk: krasjlanda

• Swedish: kraschlanda (sv)

See also

• auger in
• lithobraking