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Here is my take on the fake plane wreckage.

First let me say that if we were talking about a real life event, then the logistics would be almost if not completely impossible. Aside from the logistic problems with just transporting 324 dead bodies. The biggest challange would be keeping the people involved quiet. Even evil henchmen have lives outside of work. How do you keep your personnel quite about all the activities they are involved in when faking a crash site? But this is a TV show and all we really need is just some plausible explanations. (I guess)

Tom tells Michael that Widmore bought a decommissioned plane from a salvage yard and got the bodies from a graveyard in Thailand.

So there you go.

Apparently he got a crew to paint the plane to look like Oceanic 815. Dressed the bodies in the appropriate crew uniforms and civilian clothes for passengers. Loaded the plane with luggage and strapped the dressed dead bodies into the seats. Then took the whole she-bang-a-bang and sunk it one of the most inaccessible places of the worlds oceans.

Then along comes the deep sea expedition that were doing whatever they were doing and they found it.

So all thats left is the black box (flight data recorder). Widmore either sunk it along with the plane and this was the only item that a salvage team recovered. OR Since he staged the whole thing maybe he just kept it (knowing that salvage of anything would be impossible) and gave it to Freighter captain to aid in convincing Sayid and Des.

I think the freighter captain was just lying, trying to convince Sayid and Des that Ben is responsible for the fake plane.