Lost: The crash

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Well, after seeing the odd “Lost” thread around here for the past year or however long, the show has finally reached Australia.

It has been running here for maybe 4 or 5 episodes and seems interesting enough. However, I have a big problem with the aircraft accident that starts it all.
Namely, when an aeroplane breaks up at what looks like at least 20,000’ there will be no survivors, in fact I suspect there’d be very little in the way of recogniseable human beings.

Anyway, the only thing that allows me to suspend my disbelief for the moment is the thought that maybe the miraculous nature of surviving the crash is a plot point later on. Is it? (no details please, just a yes or no will suffice). Or do the TV execs just have no idea of what actually happens to human bodies in a catastrophic impact?

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They characters themselves question this fact in the premier episode.

not sure if this constitutes a spoiler, but I’ll use a box anyway.

They havn’t given a reason yet as to why they all survived, however the mystery has been brought up. It’s just part of the strangeness of the whole situation.

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Sayid in particular questions the unlikelihood of everyone’s survival and has a higher awareness of the island’s strangeness of all our castaways except Locke (and maybe Boone). He not only questions the crash, but the island’s topography and the oddness of magnetic north, based on the compass Locke gave him.

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Thanks. The benefit of the doubt, I shall give it. Continue watching, I will.