hard-land

English

Alternative forms

• hard land

Verb

hard-land (third-person singular simple present hard-lands, present participle hard-landing, simple past and past participle hard-landed)

1. (transitive, intransitive, astronautics, aviation) To land (a vehicle or other payload) on the surface of a body in such a manner that it does not survive the landing mostly or entirely intact and is unusable or unable to operate, even briefly, following touchdown.

   Coordinate term: soft-land

Derived terms

• hard landing