Yes, there are spoilers if you haven’t seen last night’s episode.

So the big question after last night is what exactly happened to Oceanic Flight 815? More importantly the survivors on the island. We learned last night from the parachute girl that 815 had been found and everyone as dead.

First off… We’ll probably find that parachute girl is part of Penelope’s expedition / research team, which we haven’t seen since the end of Season 2. It’s pretty obvious she wasn’t there looking for the 815 survivors.

Now a question I have is, what kind of helicopter was she in? I’ve been digging through information on helicopters…. range varies depending on the type of helicopter, but the biggest I’ve found (and most likely to have been what was used) is the H-3 Sea King, which has a range of 621 miles (~1,000 km). Tennessee is 440 miles long from end to end to give ya an idea.

This would mean that wherever the helicopter came from was no more than ~300 miles away. There are only two options here… a body of land, even if it were an island or a ship large enough to be seafaring and support a helicopter.

That out of the way, let’s get back to 815…

There are a couple of possible explanations as to what happened.

OneParallel universe theory. Somehow, 815 was sucked into a parallel universe where the real 815 crashed and everyone died. This kind of fits into the whole time travel theory about LOST.

TwoA more likely situation, would be that DHARMA or “The Others” crashed a fake 815 so no one would come looking for them, and then stumble upon the island.

ThreeThe Millennium theory. Could the LOST producers have taken ideas from the novel / film Millennium? For those of you who never saw it, Millennium was about a group time travelers from a far distant future. In the future Earth is polluted and the gene pool “irreparably damaged”. In an attempt to restart life, these people travel back in time to a more present day Earth and abduct people that are about to die in a plain crash. To cover everything up, the people that are abducted are replaced with manufactured corpses.

FourThe losties were never on 815. Rather they have been brainwashed and reprogramed as part of a DHARMA experiment to think that they were.

Any other theory’s out there? I’m sure they are… it’ll be interesting when we finally find out which one is right.