controlled flight into terrain (English, noun)
expansion: controlled flight into terrain (countable and uncountable, plural controlled flights into terrain, abbreviation CFIT)
Senses:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A usually-unintentional crash of an aircraft in which the aircraft flies into the ground while under full control by its pilots or autopilot.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: controlled flights into terrain
tags: plural
form: CFIT
tags: abbreviation