Originally Posted by queenbeesteph

How is this even possible? Something crazy will have to happen in order to make this come to fruition.

Originally Posted by Desmonds Brother

I agree that the Oceanic 6 is a cover story, but I think that the 6 have to be people who were listed on the manifest. All of their names would have been released on a news special or a website or something... I think that the names on the manifest would have been made public at some point so the 6 have to be on the manifest...

Originally Posted by chickenpotpiesarehot

Maybe the manifest would have been made public, maybe not. One thing I am certain of is that the any sort of p.r. statements about the crash and the survivors stories would have been controlled/manipulated by the same people forcing the Oceanic 6 to lie about the crash. If the Losties are being forced to lie, don't you think the "official" manifest released to the public would have been tampered with as well?

Who's gonna know that Juliet and Desmond weren't on the plane (for instance), and who's going to make a big stink about it? The big story is simply that people survived at all. (Especially after video released of all the bloated nasty corpses at the bottom of the Sunda Trench!) That's where the focus will be.

Originally Posted by Desmonds Brother

If the crash was intentional they could lie about who was on it. They could have given it some forethought."

CPPAH:
It was accidental, definitely. But, at the very least, Ben wants to keep the island a secret and will do anything he can to ensure that it stays that way. Who knows what the people on the freighter want or what their employers want. But we know it's probably not good. We can pretty safely assume that these people are not about a full disclosure of the 815 crash and the island it landed on.

Desmonds Brother:
If it was accidental, I don't think they would have time to make anything up."

CPPAH:
It seems like a LOT more time has passed in the real world than has passed on the island since the crash. I don't understand how it works, but I think there was plenty of time to make something up.

Desmonds Brother:
If a plane goes down today, what is the first question people will be asking? Who was on the plane?

CPPAH:
Yeah, I know, but this isn't the real world we're talking about, it's Lost. If it were the real world Kate would never have gotten off for arson, murder, armed robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, resisting arrest, blahdiblah, simply because her mom refused to testify, for just one example.

Desmonds Brother:
I'm not saying you're wrong...you know how Lost goes...everyone is wrong...