airplane landing

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Noun

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airplane landing - landing an aircraft aircraft landinglanding - the act of coming down to the earth (or other surface); "the plane made a smooth landing"; "his landing on his feet was catlike"emergency landing, forced landing - an unscheduled airplane landing that is made under circumstances (engine failure or adverse weather) not under the pilot's controlGCA, ground-controlled approach - aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radarthree-point landing - a landing in which all three wheels of the aircraft touch the ground at the same timeinstrument landing - an aircraft landing made entirely by means of instruments