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  • The game begins with a crashlanding of your airship into an ancient ruined city.

    Angie Chang: Interview with LOLapps Co-Founder and Head of UX Annie Chang Angie Chang 2011

  • The game begins with a crashlanding of your airship into an ancient ruined city.

    Angie Chang: Interview with LOLapps Co-Founder and Head of UX Annie Chang Angie Chang 2011

  • There's a definite train-wreck aspect to this -- or in this case, smouldering F-18 crashlanding.

    Charlie Sheen and the anatomy of winning 2011

  • Cheever's plots are improbable, his landscapes are surreal (Re-read the description of the storm and the crashlanding in the corn field in "The Country Husband" and you'll see that Cheever did not paint from life.), and his characters behave in fantastical ways.

    O Youth and Beauty! 2009

  • Cheever's plots are improbable, his landscapes are surreal (Re-read the description of the storm and the crashlanding in the corn field in "The Country Husband" and you'll see that Cheever did not paint from life.), and his characters behave in fantastical ways.

    Lance Mannion: 2009

  • What does that have to do with Superman crashlanding in Soviet Russia?

    Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2008

  • Mr. and Mrs. Conehead leave planet Remulak bent on conquering Earth, but after crashlanding they settle for making it in the suburbs.

    Comedy: The New Coneheads On The Block 2008

  • A flight attendant on a British Airways plane forced to make a crashlanding, describing passengers 'reactions to the news -- and the light snack that followed "Los Alamos has been hit by an 18-wheeler, and the government was driving that 18-wheeler."

    Perspectives 2008

  • The title characters are piglets who are to be the first creatures from Earth to journey to Pluto, but an accident finds their spaceship crashlanding on the Moon, where they mix it up with the human astronauts on Moon Base Five in a giant mecha and end up catpives in the underground ice kingdom of the moon people.

    Archive 2005-02-01 David S. Carter 2005

  • But his involvement in an abortive kidnapping aboard the interstellar liner _Antares_ and the subse-quent crashlanding near Wannome, Hunnar's home city, had lengthened his stay considerably.

    Mission to Moulokin Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1979

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