amerrissage

English translation: sea landing

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French term or phrase:	amerrissage
English translation:	sea landing
Entered by:	Nikki Scott-Despaigne

16:46 Mar 5, 2002

French to English translations [Non-PRO]
Tech/Engineering

French term or phrase: amerrissage

L'avion fera un amerrissage

John

alighting, landing (on the sea)

Explanation:
ref = Harraps

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en cas d\'amerrissage forcé = ditching

Selected response from:

GILLES MEUNIER
France
Local time: 01:53

Grading comment

I had suspected that the meaning meant a landing at sea or a crash into the sea.
The answer would indicate a "landing" or setting down, not a crash.
A landing by a seaplane?
3 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +3

sea landing

Martin Schmurr

make a sea landing

Nikki Scott-Despaigne

landing

Marcus Malabad

please

Martin Schmurr

4 -1

alighting, landing (on the sea)

GILLES MEUNIER

Answers

4 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

sea landing

Explanation:
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Note added at 2002-03-05 16:52:06 (GMT)
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ref: wordreference.com

Martin Schmurr
Local time: 01:53
Native speaker of:

German
PRO pts in pair: 16

4 mins confidence:

landing

Explanation:
The airplane will be landing.

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Note added at 2002-03-05 16:51:24 (GMT)
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on water that is... (aMERrissage)

Marcus Malabad
Canada
Native speaker of:

English,

Tagalog
PRO pts in pair: 390

4 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): -1

alighting, landing (on the sea)

GILLES MEUNIER
France
Local time: 01:53
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in pair: 2506

Grading comment

I had suspected that the meaning meant a landing at sea or a crash into the sea.
The answer would indicate a "landing" or setting down, not a crash.
A landing by a seaplane?

28 mins confidence:

make a sea landing

Explanation:
Unless its a seaplane, it's usually the sort of thing you try to avoid, hence the common turns of phrase along the lines of "forced/have to make a sea landing"

www.pbs.org/kcet/chasingthesun/innovators/lbleriot.html

www.ra.resd.mb.ca/howto/french/ir.html

Reference: http://www.pbs.org/kcet/chasingthesun/innovators/lbleriot.ht...
Reference: http://www.ra.resd.mb.ca/howto/french/ir.html

Nikki Scott-Despaigne
Local time: 01:53
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 4638

17 hrs confidence:

please

Explanation:
explain why you chose my translation but gave the points to Gilles!

Martin Schmurr
Local time: 01:53
Native speaker of:

German
PRO pts in pair: 16

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