Dale Connone was getting ready to disembark from the boat's side exit when the ferry crashed.

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Passengers that refuse to comply to a request to disembark could face action from the airline.

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For example, a connecting flight from San Francisco to New York on United Airlines would mean flying from San Francisco to Denver, or Chicago, or any major airline hub, where you would then disembark and board another plane for another flight from that city to New York.

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The Tarawa calamity was already a Pacific legend: how naval intelligence, relying on obsolete charts, had miscalculated the tides so flagrantly that the Marine troops in their landing vessels were forced to disembark on coral reefs and then wade ashore for hundreds of yards, exposed to killing fire from Japanese machine guns.

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