This isn’t a typo or punctuation or wording problem, this is the Associated Press reporting that the plane carrying the bodies of Malaysian Flight 117 back to the Netherlands crash landed, when it didn’t:

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The plane did not crash land, it landed perfectly….

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Changing your wording from “crash lands” to “lands” — removing the word “crash” — is a bit more than a clarification.