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has crash-landed

  • present perfect
    of crash-land (3rd person singular).
    crash-land
    verb (used with object)
    to land (an aircraft), under circumstances in which a normal landing is impossible, in such a way that damage to the aircraft is unavoidable.

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The setup hasn’t changed: You are an astronaut who has crash-landed on an alien planet, and you need help from the plant-like title critters to survive.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2023

A Tanzanian passenger plane has crash-landed into Lake Victoria next to the north-western town of Bukoba.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2022

A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s helicopter has crash-landed in the Azusa-Glendora area with five passengers on board.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2022

Forty years after statistician Bill James began to popularize advanced analytics in sports, and 16 years after the baseball book “Moneyball” entered the American consciousness, the analytical revolution has crash-landed in the Washington-Baltimore sports landscape.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 28, 2019

Positioned directly opposite the Texas Rangers’ far more traditional and modest-looking home – the Rangers are a baseball team – the AT&T Stadium looks like a giant spaceship that has crash-landed on Earth.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 18, 2014