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have crash-landed

  • present perfect
    of crash-land.
    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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“We need to get rescue rolling. I’m not sure where the airplane is. It would have crash-landed somewhere. I ejected.”

From Washington Times ● Sep. 22, 2023

Yes, some SpaceX debris, described as looking like an “alien obelisk,” might have crash-landed on an Australian farm.

From The Verge ● Aug. 5, 2022

Examining the Martian underground could help scientists learn whether life could have survived there—and the best subsurface samples available today are Martian meteorites that have crash-landed on Earth.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 12, 2021

That fact was highlighted on Tuesday by news that the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery is undertaking a new mission to the South Pacific island where she is suspected to have crash-landed.

From Time ● Jun. 2, 2015

Could it have crash-landed in a jungle somewhere, where the passengers are now fighting to survive?

From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2014