The book begins when a plane carrying a group of British boarding-school students crashes on an isolated island.

本书开始时，一架载有英国寄宿学校学生的飞机坠落于一个孤岛之上。

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The officer could only advise the pair to raise a stink on boarding the next plane to avoid leaving Africa.

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When we were called to the gate we gave them our boarding passes, got on the plane and fell asleep.

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The State Department officials maintained that the failure to discover the visa, by itself, would not have prevented AbdulMutallab from boarding the plane on December 25.

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