How the Plane Crashed!

[CAS_is_lost]

I put one and one and one together...and this is what I got:


Jack goes down into the hatch correct? He leaned forward, hearing something and there the key on his neck was attracted to the magnet...whatever it was...but it was a magnet. It's a HUGE magnet. The hatch must control a HUGE magnet.

This would be big enough to veer Sayid's compass off enough so that North and South and such didn't match up correctly. ALSO, this magnet could be large enough to cause the plane to veer off course (without the pilots even noticing!).....

Ok yeah...very excited!

Anyone else have thoughts on this? Thanks!

~chel

[Scoobing]

Veer off course perhaps, but could the magnetic field cause the plane to break apart mid-air like it did? I guess it could, I mean the plane is made of metal.

[Frink]

Veer off course perhaps, but could the magnetic field cause the plane to break apart mid-air like it did? I guess it could, I mean the plane is made of metal.

No it couldn't, why? Because if there is a strong magnet then there would be no transmitter picking up the radio waves, which would be interfeared by the magnetic force. And the key would have already been pointing some where, along with other metals on the island. So there is no way a magnet could have made the plane break apart.

[Count2Five]

If the magnetic force was strong enough to cause the plane to break apart and crash, then why wasn't it strong enough to rip the key off Jack's neck?! Furthermore, why wouldn't it be strong enough to pull Jack towards it, being that he's wearing the key?

[Spigot]

Planes are made form aluminum., its not attracted to magnets at all. It could possibly mess up their navigation equipment and direct the pilots in the direction of the island.

[Scoobing]

Hmm ok, so theres not much chance of that being the reason the plane crashed, but it seems like a very good reason as to why it was off course.

[Delia_35]

If the magnet was strong enough to bring the plane down, I'd think that there would be pieces of the plane right on the magnet... Like, the wreckage would have been drawn right into the magnet.

[erinclan]

what if u could make it more magnetic with a switch or a knob or something

[Count2Five]

what if u could make it more magnetic with a switch or a knob or something

That's what I thought of. Like turn the power up and down.

[Scoobing]

I thought that the reason of having that magnetic source down below ground was to shield the outside world from the effects of it a little.

Still, it couldn't have brought the plane down as the aluminium frame would not have been affected by it.

So, the magnetic field could have driven the plan off course accidentally, i.e Desmond did not do something properly, or at all, and that caused the magnetic field to spike or peak, and that caused the plane to veer off course. OR

The magnetic field was deliberatly used to knock the plane off course TO the island.

But still, what caused it to come down in the first place, veering a plane off course does not make it crash.

[henryporter]

A strong magnetic field does interfere with radio signals and radar equipment so it *could* account for the plane's loss of contact and direction but certainly not for actually crashing it. Unless the magnet can create some kind of violent thermal or natural gas release that decreases air pressure (these are two theories for the Bermuda and Devils Triangles)

[DarkDragoon]

I noticed something in that special recap episode they showed before the premier. When Jack was on the plane and looked out the window.. right after the rumbling first started.. we saw the wing of the plane. Then for a split second, the wing looked like it became engulfed in some kind of shadow. I never noticed that in season 1.. I'm not sure if they even showed it.

[5150]

I noticed something in that special recap episode they showed before the premier. When Jack was on the plane and looked out the window.. right after the rumbling first started.. we saw the wing of the plane. it.

A piece of the wing seems to be flapping like it was going to come off in my opinion. A big magnet being the cause to bring the plane down is too dissapointing to me...

[lost/wwe fan]

Magnet only attract iron, nickel, and colbalt(sorry if spelling is wrong). It wouldn't bring down an aluminum plane.

[Quiet Tempest]

I think it's very likely that the strong electro-magnetic field Jack experienced is directly responsible for causing Sayid's compass to malfunction and I believe it's equally likely that this magnetic field had ill effects on the plane's navigational equipment, causing it to go off course... but I can't see how it could be a direct cause behind the crash.

The plane had to have had an impact of some sort with something in midair for it to break apart the way it did. Maybe the island's "security system"?

If you'll remember in episode one of season one, there was a lot of speculation regarding the "black wisps" that are flying around. One of them, in fact, seems to swoop down behind one of the engines and fly back up just as it explodes.

[ericcoaster]

and they showed up before locke got pulled by the monster into the hole. so what do you think those wisps are? magnetic particals? nano technological things like in Prey? They made weird noises too..

[phill]

If the plane is aluminium, great. It would still have 'attractable' objects inside, items in luggage etc. Example: Place aluminium cup over an iron ball - turn on magnet, the field will still attract the ball despite being enclosed by the cup. I read that the plane was guided down hence the minimal destruction, magnet theory supports this. Apparently if that crash was real, you wouldn't see any wreckage more than 2x2 foot and it would be deeper in the ground also from the force.

[Jamaster14]

Hmm ok, so theres not much chance of that being the reason the plane crashed, but it seems like a very good reason as to why it was off course.


the plane wasnt off course because of any magnet... it was off course because the pilot turned around once they lost radio contact.

in episode 2 of season 1 the pilot confirms this. he states that they lost radio contact 2 hours in and turned around to head back. this put them off course, not any magnet.

and the theory that the magnet was strong enought to rip apart and bring the plane down is ludacris. that theory isless believeable then saying the plane was brought down by magic pixie dust