"So who planted the plane crash? "

1.HANSO the arms peddler funded DHARMA..and had ties to Widmore and Paik.

2.Widmore has motive and means.

3.old man PAIK is in some intenational syndicate ..although HANSO has contacts with him

4.and whatever happened to DHARMA??
They must still have pals off Island???

5. Ben and his stateside pals


6.??????


Hanso Foundation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


The Hanso Foundation was first mentioned in the Lost season 2 episode "Orientation". After discussing DHARMA Initiative founders Karen and Gerald DeGroot, the orientation film refers to "reclusive Danish industrialist and munitions magnate Alvar Hanso, whose financial backing made their dream of a multi-purpose social science research facility a reality."





Widmore Corporation - Lostpedia

The Widmore Corporation is a conglomerate of companies which have been featured on Lost and in the Lost Experience. It is owned by the Widmore family and appears to have ties to the Hanso Foundation and Paik Heavy Industries.





During the Lost Experience it was revealed that "DHARMA" is an acronym for Department of Heuristics And Research on Material Applications.


The Survivors of the Oceanic flight stumble upon a mysterious hatch that eventually is shown to be part of an elaborate abandoned research facility known as the Dharma Initiative. Throughout several episodes of Lost, aspects of the Dharma Initiative and the fate of its members are revealed. In a damaged film reel, it is revealed that the origins of the Dharma initiative go back to the 1970s when, at the University of Michigan, doctoral candidates Karen and Gerald DeGroot founded the Dharma Initiative with financial backing from the Hanso Foundation. The survivors learn that Dharma brought together "scientists and free thinkers" from around the globe at a "large-scale communal research compound" to conduct research in various disciplines, including meteorology, psychology, parapsychology, zoology, electromagnetism, and a sixth discipline that the film begins to identify as "utopian social-" before being cut off. The complex contains several stations throughout the Island and the exact nature of the facility is shrouded in mystery.


The Lost Experience ARG revealed that the Dharma Initiative set out to find a way to change the "Valenzetti Equation", a mathematical formula designed to predict the end of the world. Thomas Mittelwerk, a member of the Hanso Foundation, later says, however, that "The Dharma Initiative failed".



Dharma Initiative - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


The word Dharma comes from a Sanskrit word that literally means "to hold"
The word Dharma means "moral duty" - literally "to hold" a person to his/her purpose.
In Hinduism and Buddhism, dharma is:
In Eastern religion, Dharma (Sanskrit धर्म) means Natural Law or Reality, or the "Way of the Higher Truths".
The principle or law that orders the universe.
Individual conduct in conformity with this principle.
The essential function or nature of a thing.
In Hinduism
Individual obligation with respect to caste, social custom, civil law, and sacred law.
In Buddhism
The body of teachings expounded by the Buddha.
Knowledge of or duty to undertake conduct set forth by the Buddha as a way to enlightenment.
One of the basic, minute elements from which all things are made.
Teaching - the lessons given to the student by the teacher
The Path of the Teaching - the journey of the student that ends ultimately in the alleviation of suffering and/or the undoing of karma
Ultimate Reality - the realization that the most fundamental element of the universe is happiness, bliss, or Nirvana
In Italian the word "dama" (which is pronounced exactly the same as "Dharma") means the board game draughts (or checkers