- airplane landing
- nounlanding an aircraft• Syn: ↑aircraft landing• Hypernyms: ↑landing• Hyponyms: ↑forced landing, ↑emergency landing, ↑ground-controlled approach, ↑GCA, ↑three-point landing, ↑instrument landing
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
airplane landing
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