Term: crash landing: an emergency landing under circumstances where a normal landing is impossible (usually damaging the aircraft)
Broader: forced landing: an unscheduled airplane landing that is made under circumstances (engine failure or adverse weather) not under the pilot's control | Unrelated: federation: the act of constituting a political unity out of a number of separate states or colonies or provinces so that each member retains the management of its internal affairs
Broader: forced landing: an unscheduled airplane landing that is made under circumstances (engine failure or adverse weather) not under the pilot's control | Unrelated: lexicostatistics: a statistical technique used in glottochronology; used to estimate how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language
Broader: forced landing: an unscheduled airplane landing that is made under circumstances (engine failure or adverse weather) not under the pilot's control | Unrelated: cub: a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)
Broader: forced landing: an unscheduled airplane landing that is made under circumstances (engine failure or adverse weather) not under the pilot's control | Unrelated: subscript: a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character
Broader: forced landing: an unscheduled airplane landing that is made under circumstances (engine failure or adverse weather) not under the pilot's control | Unrelated: echinocactus: any cactus of the genus Echinocactus; strongly ribbed and very spiny; southwestern United States to Brazil
Broader: forced landing: an unscheduled airplane landing that is made under circumstances (engine failure or adverse weather) not under the pilot's control | Unrelated: beta cell: a cell that produces insulin in the isles of Langerhans in the pancreas
Broader: forced landing: an unscheduled airplane landing that is made under circumstances (engine failure or adverse weather) not under the pilot's control | Unrelated: phalacrocoracidae: cormorants
Broader: forced landing: an unscheduled airplane landing that is made under circumstances (engine failure or adverse weather) not under the pilot's control | Unrelated: chalkpit: a quarry for chalk
Broader: forced landing: an unscheduled airplane landing that is made under circumstances (engine failure or adverse weather) not under the pilot's control | Unrelated: ferris wheel: a vertical rotating mechanism consisting of a large wheel with suspended seats that remain upright as the wheel rotates; provides a ride at an amusement park
Broader: forced landing: an unscheduled airplane landing that is made under circumstances (engine failure or adverse weather) not under the pilot's control | Unrelated: lightweight: a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds