Word: disembark
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...Greeks have indeed fixed their airport problem, how then could a bomb have been put aboard the TWA jet? A terrorist could have flown from Athens to New York and tried to leave a bag with the bomb inside on the plane as he prepared to disembark. But the TWA airliner would have been swept of all bags in the luggage compartments and underneath passenger seats before the Paris-bound passengers were boarded and their luggage loaded onto the aircraft. On the New York-Paris leg, no bag would have been allowed aboard the plane without its passenger on board...
...another instance, the Jewish passengers of the ship St. Louis were refused permission to disembark in Havana harbor. After being turned away by the Cubans, the ship sailed northward close enough to Miami to be able to see the city lights. Telegrams to the White House from a committee working on behalf of the passengers went unacknowledged. There is little need in recounting the obvious fate which awaited these passengers as they were made to return to Europe...
...disembark, the captain and his co-pilot come out and stand with the flight attendants. Instead of the usual "Bye, bye, bub-bye," people laugh and joke with each other, and congratulate the great-grandfather one more time...
...struggled gladly down the aisle with my bags, the Kings waited patiently to disembark...
...plane to New York, it swiftly became obvious that this was not the rowdy Zhirinovsky of past foreign forays. The Liberal Democratic Party leader who has gadded about with ex-Nazi storm troopers and nubile nightclub strippers was the soul of propriety. As he stood waiting to disembark, surrounded by the latest members of his ever-shifting constellation of advisers, bodyguards and hangers-on, his pale blue eyes betrayed the hollow disorientation of an actor between scripts who suddenly finds himself at a loss for words...