EMERGENCY LANDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does emergency landing mean? 

• EMERGENCY LANDING (noun)
  The noun EMERGENCY LANDING has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: EMERGENCY LANDING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMERGENCY LANDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

emergency landing; forced landing

Hypernyms ("emergency landing" is a kind of...):

aircraft landing; airplane landing (landing an aircraft)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "emergency landing"):

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