Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense crash-lands, present participle crash-landing, past tense, past participle crash-landed
verb
If a pilot crash-lands an aircraft, or if it crash-lands, it lands more quickly and less safely than usual, for example when there is something wrong with the aircraft, and it cannot land normally.
He arrives in his biplane and crash lands it in a tree. [VERB noun]
A light aircraft crash-landed on a putting green yesterday. [VERB]