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gear-up landing

gear-up landing noun: a landing of an aircraft with the landing gear retracted due to the pilot(s) forgetting to extend the gear or to take some other action necessary for the gear to deploy.

Noun

gear-up landing (plural gear-up landings)

  1. A landing of an aircraft with the landing gear retracted due to the pilot(s) forgetting to extend the gear or to take some other action necessary for the gear to deploy.
    • The gear warning horn sounds if any of the gear are not down and locked when the throttle is pulled back to idle with the flaps down, providing a valuable protection against a gear-up landing.

Forms of gear-up landing

pluralgear-up landings

Questions about gear-up landing

What does gear-up landing mean?
Gear-up landing means a landing of an aircraft with the landing gear retracted due to the pilot(s) forgetting to extend the gear or to take some other action necessary for the gear to deploy.
What part of speech is gear-up landing?
Gear-up landing is a noun.
What is the plural of gear-up landing?
The plural of gear-up landing is gear-up landings.

Words near gear-up landing in the dictionary

  1. gear train
  2. gear trains
  3. gear up
  4. gear wheel
  5. gear wheels
  6. gear-up landing
  7. gear-up landings
  8. gear-wheel
  9. gear-wheels
  10. gearbox
  11. gearboxed

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