> 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.
>>
>>
> up/conspiracy, it would be even easier.
ChrisRiley
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