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v. - Land on the underside without the landing gear.

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Usage examples (4)
  • He kicked harder on the rudder, losing two hundred feet fast, and straightened up just in time to belly-land a few yards short of the posts.
  • I remembered the video of the DC-10 somersaulting into the cornfield in Sioux City, and the fascinating tape of the 747 almost managing to belly-land just off the beach...
  • Air New Zealand subsidiary Eagle Air has been cleared of any wrongdoing after an aircraft it was operating was forced to belly-land in Blenheim in 2007.
  • I think, too, if we belly-land ---- Better go around again, huh? "
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