Would it surprise you to know that the plane itself has it’s own website?
I actually spent some time on this. The problem is, some of the things to work out. As I mentioned, the L-1011 doesn’t have the range to make that run. Max range for an L-1011 is around 7,500 kms. Sydney to L.A. is over 12,000.
Secondly, the average cruise speed for an L-1011 is somewhere around 900kph. That makes the run only about 14 hours long, which is too short. I believe a figure of 16 or 17 hours has been mentioned.
So, we don’t even really know where they were when the pilot turned the plane around. The pilot says: “Six hours out we lost communications. We turned back to Fiji. By the time we hit the turbulence, we were a thousand miles off course.” So we can guess that he means they were 1,000 miles from their flight path, but we don’t know what speed the plane was flying at before deviating from it’s flight path. That’s the biggest variable. That makes a lot of ocean to look in.
Either way, have a look at the area. Fiji’s easily the biggest thing out there. Everything else is small islands and barnacle covered UFO’s.
Add the fact that CFL and crew were 6 days out of Tahiti when the storm hit. Not a lot of large landmasses in the area.
Well, I just checked and last year a grand total of two girls were given the name Inga. In all of Sweden, there’s only one Ilsa alive. Maybe Casablanca has something to do with that.
So she’s the one responsible for that line! 
And what about that other group that got castaway? They were only out on a three hour tour. A three hour tour.
One good scene that hasn’t been mentioned yet was when they were hiding from the invisible monter someone asked what it was. Danielle said, “it’s a security system” and everyone else looks at her thinking, “wow, that was a surprisingly lucid answer.”
[hijack]In the Dan Ackroyd/Eddie Murphy movie “Trading Places,” Jamie Lee Curtis is in disguise and introduces herself with almost the exact line, “Hello, I am Inga from Sveden.” Does it help to imagine that it might not be an ethnic slight but people quoting a line from a very funny movie?[/hijack]
But … you’re wearing leiderhosen …
I’m sorry, I couldn’t help it.
“Ya, from Sveden.”
“Yes, but what IS it?!!” (I was waiting for somebody else to cry out)…
A giant robot T-Rex?
One of those big mechanical spiders from “Wild Wild West”?
The Iron Giant?
A giraffe who has surpassed pissed-off and is now making his way into long-necked furiousness?
Maybe it’s the X-large version of C-3PO. “I say, Mr. Locke, sir… Do you have the time?”
The “crashed aircraft” is actually a former Delta Air Lines L10-11 that was cut up and shipped to Hawaii. (Look here, about halfway down the page.)
The interiors are not from any aircraft; they are actually a soundstage somewhere.
And… How did I miss that Dante had already answered that. :smack: Oh well, my link is different. (Yeah… That’s it…)
Wrong ocean for a Small Prop Airplane from Nigeria too!
I know, I know. Sometimes you just want to jump thru the TV screen, grab one of these guys by the neck and screem at them. How about “Have you ever seen it?” or “Why does the island need a security system?” or “How many of these things are there?” or… ALMOST ANYTHING!!!
It’s going to be a long 5 days until Wednesday!
Could it possibly have been a prison ship headed for Australia? Would they have sailed around South America and across the Pacific or around Africa and across the Indian Ocean? (When did England quit using Australia as a prison colony?)
Oh, and there’s a shot where they’re standing around and Hurley is next to Shannon. She (without looking at him) pulls her jacket around herself covering her bare skin.
Was Hurley trying to sneak a peek?
Have you noticed Jack Shepard looks exactly like the actor, Matthew Fox? But Fox doesn’t have a medical degree and he’s married, while Jack is an unmarried surgeon. No problem here: Fox is an actor, playing Jack the doctor.
Clearly, the jet used for Oceanic Flight 815 is not an L-1011, because it was used in a way we know an L-1011 cannot be used.
But an L-1011 played the non-L-1011 used in the show.
Did they ever stop? 
That’s a good guess. England used several different dumping grounds for prisoners, including Georgia when it was a colony. But prison shipments to Australia went on, IIRC, until the mid 1800s.
Transportees typically travelled around Africa and across the Indian Ocean to Australia. The last ship of involuntary settlers landed in 1852.