belly landing
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Video footage showed the plane making a belly landing - without its landing gear deployed - on the tarmac and skidding into a concrete barrier.
From BBC • Jul. 21, 2025
Huge crowds, bad weather, inability of some airline crews to reach their scheduling offices — even a Delta jet that made a belly landing in Charlotte, North Carolina — all contributed to the mess.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 27, 2023
According to two websites that track P-51s that are still flying, it made a belly landing away from the airport.
From Chicago Tribune • Sep. 17, 2011
The runway was not long enough to take his 70,000-lb. ship, but the pilot might have risked a belly landing.
From Time Magazine Archive
As we came in, we found we had a belly landing on our hands, so we skidded her in.
From A Yankee Flier Over Berlin by Laune, Paul
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