With the recent revelation that we will know how the plane was taken down by the end of this season, I’ve been thinking about some things regarding this.
First, I think that *how* they reveal this information might be more interesting than the information itself. I’m sure that whatever they reveal will uncover more questions, but in order to tell the story they will have to tell it from the perspective of someone who knows it, which probably means a flashback from someone we haven’t seen much backstory on yet. Whether it’s the people responsible, or one of the survivors who knows more than they’ve revealed so far, it will be interesting.
Secondly, I have conflicting thoughts about the crash itself. Without some kind of nearly supernatural intervention, there’s no way a plane that size could be ripped apart and go down like that with that many survivors. I guess that if it was some kind of powerful magnetic force that actually ripped the plane up and guided the pieces down more slowly than they otherwise would fall, they could stand a chance of a greater number of people surviving.
In any event, I’ve pretty much decided that I don’t believe any theories which involve these specific people being set up to be on the plane (and then the island). The reason is because if they wanted / needed these specific individuals, it would be way too risky to crash a plane with them on it, because they could never tell who would survive. The only way they could get around that would be if the plane did not actually crash, but I think they’ve tried to make it pretty clear that it did.
Lastly, how is it that the midsection of the plane ended up on one beach, the tail on another side of the island, and the cockpit in between the two of them somewhere in the middle? This would certainly seem to suggest either the crash was very artificial in nature or it didn’t actually “crash” at all.
I think that the plane was brought down by the flying shadows and disassembled in mid air carefully, maybe by magnetism and after the plane crashed lightly on the island the shadows blew up the engines so the survivors would be disoriented enough to not care what the hell just happened and making it traumatic enough they rather not analyze it.
For the last part it is possible for the midsection to pass the other pieces since it does have the engines and the other pieces would just break from it. Think of the plane traveling north, the back section rips off and lands on the south section of the island, the nose then breaks from the mid section and falls in the middle of the island and then the midsection just travels a little forward in the air to get in walking distance of the nose ahead of it. Anything is possible in a “crash”.
I think that the plane has flown over into another world and the shadow creatures are portals and when the pull ppl they take them back 2 reality.