crash-land
verb
crash-landed; crash-landing; crash-lands
: to land (an airplane or spacecraft) under emergency conditions usually with damage to the craft
: to crash-land an airplane or spacecraft
crash landing
noun
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This harrowing thriller tells the wild true story of a Uruguayan rugby team whose charter flight to Chile crash-landed in the Andes in 1972.
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Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Apr. 2026
The first film follows an adorable blue extraterrestrial creature who crash-lands in Hawaii and gets adopted by a young girl and her older sister.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 18 Mar. 2026
The core of this CW series is a romance between a human girl, Emery, and an alien boy called Roman who met a decade earlier when the extraterrestrial visitors first crash-landed on Earth and were rounded up and placed in an internment camp.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 14 Feb. 2026
There are also boulder-size chunks of moon rocks and meteorites that crash-landed on Earth that children can touch and smell.
—John Arlidge, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2026
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Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Apr. 2026
The first film follows an adorable blue extraterrestrial creature who crash-lands in Hawaii and gets adopted by a young girl and her older sister.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 18 Mar. 2026
The core of this CW series is a romance between a human girl, Emery, and an alien boy called Roman who met a decade earlier when the extraterrestrial visitors first crash-landed on Earth and were rounded up and placed in an internment camp.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 14 Feb. 2026
There are also boulder-size chunks of moon rocks and meteorites that crash-landed on Earth that children can touch and smell.
—John Arlidge, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2026
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“Crash-land.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crash-land. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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