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Old Dec 8, 2005 | 8:49 am
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Originally Posted by Dave_C


There is no such word as "deplane". It is some invented americanism that means nothing.

The correct work is disembark.
Sorry, I am normally the first to object to any such neologisms but the verb to deplane is well supported by the OED with examples of its usage going back to 1933.
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