On Feb 11, 12:45 pm, rwgibson13 <rwgibso...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 11, 12:16�pm, Johnny1...@webtv.net wrote:
>
> > rwgibso...@gmail.com (rwgibson13) wrote:
>
> > >Well, I hate to beat a dead horse that's
> > > probably all bones by now, but we STILL
> > > (after three years) really only have the pilot's
> > > word about what happened during the flight of
> > > 815...
>
> > >Maybe he WAS flying it in a different direction
> > > for whatever reason...
>
> > Well here's the thing... Judging by the news report, the people of the
> > time were basically expecting the Jet to be found in the vicinity of the
> > Sunda trench.
>
> Hmm, I'm not getting that "expecting" vibe at all. Care to remind me
> of onscreen evidence of this?
>
> Seems to me that the scenes at the beginning of the last episode
> could've been a complete accident (they were looking for something
> else) and had nothing to do with 815 until the subs stumbled upon it.
> Once they decided it WAS 815 (I suppose maybe it couldn've been the
> only Oceanic flight unaccounted for), THEN all the media reports would
> start reporting on the location.
I was wondering why the salvage ship was looking in that area as well--
because they seemed very surprised to find an airplane down there. As
I understood it from the tv reports, the Christiane was a salvage
operation looking for sunken ships--they weren't looking for Flight
815. I take it from what I've read about the Find 815 game they were
actually looking for the wreckage of the Black Rock, but the Black
Rock wasn't mentioned in the "Confirmed Dead" episode.
The ROV operators seemed so surprised to find the wreckage of a plane
that it never would have occurred to me to think they were looking for
Flight 815. I'd have thought by that time, the search for Oceanic 815
had been abandoned.
-yngver
>
> >...So I'm assuming that the ATC and the NTSB did too.
> > .But yet we've got a lot of clues, including Captain Noriss' own words
> > that the jet crashed on an island in the Pacific. � ..Thus, in so far as
> > the people off island goes, everything (Other than Captain Frank's
> > observtions) points to the fact that the jet in the Sunda trench is the
> > real flight 815. �
>
> We really haven't been given enough onscreen evidence for any of this
> IMO. We have Danielle's dialogue about her ship being a few days out
> of Tahiti, we have Desmond's (assumed) navigational skills telling him
> where he should've been when he ran aground, and we have Toomey's wife
> telling Hurley they were monitoring the Pacific for signals. I'm sure
> I've missed a few other references to the location of the island, but
> the producers have gone to great lengths not to give us a whole lot to
> go on...
>
> RWG (and I can't help but to assume they've done so for a reason)
ChrisRiley
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