crash-land
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Nearly five months on, authorities are still studying what may have caused the plane to crash-land at Muan International Airport and then burst into flames.
From BBC ● May 14, 2025
There’s a more than 1% chance the asteroid will make its way toward Earth and crash-land on the planet in December 2032.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025
Another study showed that a group of frogs called pumpkin toadlets had become so small that the fluid-filled canals in their ears that confer balance no longer functioned properly, causing them to crash-land when jumping.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024
Both characters are humanoids from faraway planets who crash-land on Earth.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2023
With just enough fuel left to get them to the ground, Valentina and Polina managed to crash-land the Rodina in one piece.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
When Arco crash-lands into it, however, having borrowed a cape and a diamond, Iris’s focus turns to helping him find his way home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Morrow was the chief security officer on the Maginot, the Weyland-Yutani deep space research vessel that crash-lands in Prodigy territory and carries several lethal extraterrestrial species.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2025
The winds get stronger and the vampire drone crash-lands.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025
One B-17 survives Luftwaffe attacks and crash-lands in Northern Africa.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2024
At the beginning of “Encounter,” the sophomore feature from the British director Michael Pearce, something bright and blazing crash-lands in the night and a swarm of microorganisms appears to colonize an earthly host.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2021
The organic molecules are not definitive evidence of past life, the NASA-led team emphasised, because they could also have formed on the red planet or crash-landed on meteorites.
From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026
Then he purposely crash-landed into Ketron Island on Puget Sound.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
The US Coast Guard said the helicopter crash-landed about 100 yards off Kalalau beach.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
“Superman” crash-landed on a planet divided, closing out an era defined by crime, economic strife and the Vietnam War.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2025
Luke would give anything to go back to pretending to fly missions, when they crash-landed behind enemy lines.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
Glimpsed in “Alien: Earth’s” first episode, the Maginot had to be fully fitted out for Episode 5’s flashback to the onboard horror that preceded the crash-landing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
"Those 'exorbitant fees' are the crash-landing of a system that hasn't been planned or funded properly," he said.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025
"Hocus Pocus 2" is crash-landing on Disney+ on September 30 and it already has an advantage over the original which came out in theaters during the — blech — summer of 1993.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2022
Alan Tudyk plays Harry, masquerading as a small-town doctor — and a human — after crash-landing on Earth.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2021
The plane they were escorting, a transport aircraft with good navigation equipment, landed safely; but the three Yaks ended up crash-landing in the snow.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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