forced landing

1. 1.

   an unscheduled airplane landing that is made under circumstances (engine failure or adverse weather) not under the pilot's control

   Synonymsemergency landing

   Broaderaircraft landing

   Narrowercrash landing

Questions about forced landing

What does forced landing mean?

forced landing means "an unscheduled airplane landing that is made under circumstances (engine failure or adverse weather) not under the pilot's control".

What is another word for forced landing?

Close synonyms include emergency landing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is forced landing a common word?

forced 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.