crash-land

crash·-land (kras̸h′land′)

transitive verb, intransitive verb

to bring (an airplane) down in a forced landing, esp. without use of the landing gear, so that some damage results

crash landing

Preposition: on

planet: Synopsis Dr. Cherijo Torin crash-lands on an ice planet whose population is on the verge of civil war.
moon: Abandoning Red Dwarf until Holly can pilot it around them, Starbug is hit by a flaming meteorite, crash-landing on an ice moon.
island: When Nelson crash-landed on a desert island in the South Pacific, he stumbled upon an old bottle containing a genie.

Modifying Another Word

just: Starbug cockpit --------------------------------------------- ] [ ALL present ] KOCHANSKI Able's pod just crash-landed.

Preposition: in

storm: Called away by her boss to do an emergency photo-shoot on another island, she and Ford crash-land in a storm.
flame: Television archives are full of upsetting footage of politicians trying to touch down chummily on to entertainment shows only to crash-land in flames.
middle: A super-cool modernist block of concrete and metal, it seems to have crash-landed in the middle of this conservative Carinthian village.
land: What was the name of the US rocketship that a group of people set off in before crash-landing in the Land of the Giants?

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