gear-up landings

A form of gear-up landing — 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.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of gear-up landing
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