heavy landing

It made a heavy landing and a hard stop, resulting in the gear catching fire.

He did not suffer a recurrence of his back injury despite a heavy landing.

On one flight, he made a heavy landing and damaged the undercarriage of his aircraft.

In September 1929 it suffered from a heavy landing which damaged the undercarriage.

It was arguable whether the ship had made a heavy landing or a barely controlled crash.

The accident was due to the grass runway being unable to support the weight of the aircraft during a heavy landing.

In addition to the loss of several hundred men, the Germans also lost most of their few heavy landing craft.

A second, shorter, flight was made on 4 October, ending in a heavy landing which caused minor damage.

Four Harriers from his squadron of ten were lost, three to ground fire and one after an engine failure led to a heavy landing.

Heavy landings and hard straining to reach the marks in the parachute events are taking their toll.

Four heavy landing legs, with big spring-loads shock absorbers, stick out from the base.

In addition, the Su-28 can withstand heavy landings, allowing it to be more forgiving in the training role.

A wing failure on a heavy landing caused the failure of this carrier qualification too.

"There have been very heavy landings."

Its heavy landing equipment handicapped it.

We're going to make a heavy landing.'

The probable cause of the accident was stated to be "a heavy landing following an incomplete flare from a steeper than normal approach."

They all managed to get off safely, but we did hear that there were one or two very heavy landings when they arrived at their destinations.

After a heavy landing to the back of his head on a layout Thomas salto, he twice attempted to run into his final tumbling pass.

We could make a heavy landing, a crash landing or, heaven help us, just crash.'

The Moth shot up into the air and Finucane barely recovered to make a heavy landing, although he was praised by his instructor.

The other three Australian vessels will decommission during 2014, with the entire class to be replaced by an as-yet-unidentified class of six heavy landing craft.

Pilots must avoid a heavy landing and stationary aircraft should be monitored closely to ensure they do not sink more than 10 inches into the ice.

In early versions some of the fuselage frame was wood, but this was replaced with a light alloy casting which sometimes cracks after heavy landings.

During trials in July 1954, VX777 received substantial damage during a heavy landing at Farnborough.