emergency landing
Crisis aircraft descent
An emergency landing is an unscheduled aircraft landing made necessary by mechanical failure, medical crisis, weather, or other urgent circumstances that prevent continuing to the intended destination.
The term covers a range of scenarios from precautionary diversions to nearby airports to forced landings on unprepared surfaces like fields or water.
The pilot made an emergency landing after the engine started smoking.
A water landing is sometimes called a ditching.
- ditchingHastily discarding something
- maydayRadio emergency signal
- aircraftAirborne transportation vehicle
- pilotOne who steers aircraft
- flight crewPersonnel operating an aircraft
flight attendant · life raft · runway · mechanical failure · fuel leak · impact · evacuation procedures · survival equipment · control tower · cockpit · air traffic control · altitude · bird strike · structural damage · distress signal · touchdown · brace position · aviation safety
- aviation disastersplane crash, air crash, midair collision, crash site, crashes
- flightsdeparture, arrival, nonstop flight, boarding, connecting flight
- flight eventstakeoff, liftoff, flight, launch, descent
- landingstouchdown, touch and go, controlled descent, splashdown, ditching
- emergency maneuversditching, evasive action, go-around, abort, bailout
- pilotingtakeoff, climbing, cruising, descending, turns