heavy landing

heavy landing
   an aircraft crash on the runway
   All landings of a machine heavier than air are of necessity heavy. Aviation jargon for an accident which is not calamitous:
    ... DC 10 of the big American carrier careered off the runway at Istanbul after a heavy landing. (Moynahan, 1983)

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