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AIRPLANE LANDING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Landing an aircraft
Synonyms:
aircraft landing; airplane landing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("airplane landing" is a kind of...):
landing (the act of coming down to the earth (or other surface))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "airplane landing"):
emergency landing; forced landing (an unscheduled airplane landing that is made under circumstances (engine failure or adverse weather) not under the pilot's control)
GCA; ground-controlled approach (aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar)
three-point landing (a landing in which all three wheels of the aircraft touch the ground at the same time)
instrument landing (an aircraft landing made entirely by means of instruments)
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