belly landing
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
belly landing (plural belly landings)
- (aviation) A landing of an aircraft without the landing gear being deployed.
Usage notes[edit]
"Belly landing" is often restricted to emergency landings where the pilots knowingly land the aircraft with the gear retracted, due to gear extension being impossible or inadvisable (for instance, in a water ditching); in this system, a landing where the pilot(s) merely forget to extend the landing gear of an otherwise-serviceable aircraft is termed a gear-up landing.