On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:40:37 -0500, Steven L. <sdlitvin@earthlink.net>
> Tikbalang wrote:
>> Airplanes have crashed before and after exhaustive searches nothing
>> was ever found. People eventually stop looking and it's all over. What
>> does setting up a fake crash site accomplish?
>> People will think they have found the real crash and stop looking?
>> People will stop looking anyway, they always do.
>> Let's take a quick look at the total impossibility that you could set
>> up a fake plane crash site and get away with it. First you need all
>> the material for the fake crash on standby and ready to deploy faster
>> than the search and rescues crews. Material would include a look alike
>> airplane and look alike freshly dead bodies to match the general
>> appearance of all the passengers. You also need to dress up your
>> corpses with identification papers, personal effects, heirloom
>> jewelry, and recent dental work.
>
> Last season, Naomi had said that the plane crashed in water too deep for
> a full recovery operation. So to fake the crash, you wouldn't need to
> be too exact. Just put a bunch of random dead bodies into the fuselage
> and lower it into the water. That would be enough to fool the
> underwater cameras.
>
> Except for the pilot. But transporting the pilot's body from Lost
> Island (after Smokey killed him) to the crash site is straightforward.
>
> Remember, a fellow named J.J. Abrams *already* faked a plane crash. :-)
> He had bought a surplus obsolete Lockheed L1011 jetliner, cut it up
> into pieces, and scattered the pieces over a Hawaii beach, for filming
> the crash scenes of Lost.
>
> It's been said that you can catch a glimpse of the wreckage from a
> commercial airliner flying overhead in Hawaii, and that sometimes those
> passengers had to be reassured that what they were seeing from their
> windows was just a TV show being filmed!
>
> So if Abrams could do it with the limited funding for a TV show, imagine
> what a corporation the size of Hanso or Widmore could get away with.
>
>
ChrisRiley
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