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AIRCRAFT LANDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aircraft landing mean? 

AIRCRAFT LANDING (noun)
  The noun AIRCRAFT LANDING has 1 sense:

1. landing an aircraftplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


AIRCRAFT LANDING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Landing an aircraft

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

aircraft landing; airplane landing

Hypernyms ("aircraft 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 "aircraft 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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