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dead-stick landing

The landing of an air or space craft without power (i.e., one whose control stick is "dead"). (Also written as "deadstick landing.") After the storm knocked out both of the plane's engines, the pilot was forced to performed a harrowing dead-stick landing.

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The best outcome is that you break out of the clouds somewhere in that spiral down and you can complete the deadstick landing with the last couple turns in visual conditions.

Emergency descent in IMC: that stabilized descent stuff is fine, so long as you've got time and at least one working engine. Too bad catastrophic failures don't always wait for clear skies

Nearly every month we hear about a pilot rescuing a planeload of passengers in a deadstick landing or a little girl being plucked from a frozen river by some selfless passerby.

Risky business of rescue

A deadstick landing to a two-lane road ensued, killing 62 and injuring 22.

Reading radar right: just like landing, it's a skill to be learned and practiced. Knowing how radar "sees" rain and how to overcome its limitations can help

Hear what it's like to do what you can to talk down a lost student or guide a pilot to a highway for a deadstick landing at night.

ATC doesn't have to fly; a controller's job is separating aircraft, and he doesn't have to be a pilot to do that well. Flying the airplane is your problem

The rudder is operated by duplicated FBW, with duplicated hydraulics, though no manual reversion, hence deadstick landings are crosswind-limited.

Genesis and development of the Italo/Brazilian AMX; a new star is born in the strike aircraft firmament

Another friend has had several deadstick landings in the last two or three years in aircraft with these two-strokes.