crash landing

1. 1.

   an emergency landing under circumstances where a normal landing is impossible (usually damaging the aircraft)

   Broaderforced landing

   aircraft

Questions about crash landing

What does crash landing mean?

crash landing means "an emergency landing under circumstances where a normal landing is impossible (usually damaging the aircraft)".

Is crash landing a common word?

crash landing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.