WordNet
n. an unscheduled airplane landing that is made under circumstances (engine failure or adverse weather) not under the pilot's control [syn: emergency landing]
Wikipedia
A forced landing is a landing by an aircraft made under factors outside the pilot's control, such as the failure of engines, systems, components or weather which makes continued flight impossible. For a full description of these, see article on emergency landing. However the term also means a landing that has been forced by interception.
A plane may be compelled to land through the use, or threat of use, of force, if it strays off course into hostile foreign territory. The customary procedure is for the military plane to approach the airliner from below and to the left, where his plane is easily visible from the left seat where the captain sits. The forcing plane waggles his wings to signal the demand for a forced landing.
International law regulates the treatment of intruding aircraft:
- ... aircraft that fail to identify themselves, enter the airspace without a necessary permission, deny to follow a prescribed route, head towards a prohibited zone, or violate of a prohibition of flight may, by strict observance of the relevant standards and procedures, as a last resort, be intercepted, identified, escorted to the adequate route or out of the prohibited airspace, or forced to land by military aircraft of the territorial state.
Forced Landing is a 1941 action film directed by Gordon Wiles and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film recounts the exploits of a pilot in Mosaque, an imaginary country in the midst of turmoil.Forced Landing stars Richard Arlen, Eva Gabor, J. Carrol Naish, Nils Asther and Evelyn Brent.
Forced Landing is a 1935 American mystery film directed by Melville W. Brown and written by William Scott Darling. The film stars Esther Ralston, Onslow Stevens, Sidney Blackmer, Toby Wing, Edward Nugent and Barbara Pepper. The film was released on November 2, 1935, by Republic Pictures.
Usage examples of "forced landing".
The last working flier made a forced landing five hundred miles from the colony.
Or had the Throgs tried to blast the Terran ship in the upper atmosphere, crippling it, making this a forced landing?
In all, eighty per cent of his training time was taken up with Shuttle emergency procedures: mostly to do with problems during launch, or a forced landing.
BY]ron thought it was a forced landing, but several passengers took their valises and got off.
According to the Spiders, all the humans aboard theHand had survived its forced landing.
As he brought the fighter around for the final approach, Hunter heard Jones's reassuring voice talking him through each step of the forced landing.
They boasted that a butterfly could not make a forced landing anywhere in the United States without alerting the search & rescue system.
They boasted that a butterfly could not make a forced landing anywhere in the United States without alerting the search &.
The pilot's survival and the condition of the wreckage, plus the undamaged equipment, suggest a forced landing in rough country, such as would result from engine failure.
You see I decided that there was no point in hiring another skycar and maybe having another forced landing on the way home.
A twin-engine aircraft--too large to be a trainer--had made a forced landing inside this canyon sometime in decades past, either because the pilot was flying blind in bad weather, or had run out of fuel, or perhaps windshear had knocked it out of the sky.