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    AIRPLANE LANDING

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Landing an aircraftplay

    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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