In the pilot when they are showing a flashback of Kate in the plane, they show it all. The plane seems very normal, then there is abit of a disturbance (NOT much, but a bit) Then it increases and looks like a force has grabbed a hold of the plane and it is pulling it down at an alarming rate (hence the oxygen equipment falls out for the passengers) So at this point, they are dropping from 40,000 feet to 10,000 very quickly. As they are getting closer to the island, they are still falling quite fast but at a slowing rate, like there is a smaller force slowing the plane down.
In episode S3:01, we see the plane breaking up in the sky as it is falling to the island (very slowly considering this plane just fell 38,000 feet. So, this brings me to think of an explanation as to why it was slow, why so many people survived and why the plane blew up after the crash.
Now the force required to pull a plane of that size from that altitude is ridiculously immense and impossible but, as we know it was very very strong. What do we know about the hatch? the magnetic pull and what happens after an overdue electromagnetic discharge (which occurs when Desmond gets the computer to reset after the SYSTEM FAILURE!) It was a fluke discharge (Desmond missed it cause he was following Kelvin) After a minute or so of system failure, it resets which performed a discharge. When a discharge occurs, a fraction of the pulling force is pushed BACK.. quite hard. I believe this is the force that slowed down the plane (and I'm almost certain played a big part in the breaking up of the plane and why all 3 parts landed in different spots) as it neared the island (slowing down the falling humans in the process, who then fall at the slowed speed) I am not saying that the magnetic force itself slowed down the survivors, it slowed the plane which in turn slows down the survivors in the plane (law of inertia). Therefore, this explains why Kate and Jack were further in the beach entering the jungle and why people were everywhere. This also explains why the engine was still intact and one of the turbines were still spinning. If this plane would have dropped with out that pushing force of the discharge, there would be very little left and very FEW survivors and the remains of the plane would not have been saved (to then explode later by pulling a large man into the engine). I know this discharge force is real (in season 2 finale when the force grew stronger everything was being pulled to the magnet in the hatch, when Desmond turned the key, it had quite a powerful force pushing out instead of pulling in , and what causes the hatch door to fly way up and almost kill Claire and Bernard when it landed.)
The crash was weird, and odd and how many survived and how many parts of the plane were not demolished. This is my theory on the crash.
Theory by Ken
In episode S3:01, we see the plane breaking up in the sky as it is falling to the island (very slowly considering this plane just fell 38,000 feet. So, this brings me to think of an explanation as to why it was slow, why so many people survived and why the plane blew up after the crash.
Now the force required to pull a plane of that size from that altitude is ridiculously immense and impossible but, as we know it was very very strong. What do we know about the hatch? the magnetic pull and what happens after an overdue electromagnetic discharge (which occurs when Desmond gets the computer to reset after the SYSTEM FAILURE!) It was a fluke discharge (Desmond missed it cause he was following Kelvin) After a minute or so of system failure, it resets which performed a discharge. When a discharge occurs, a fraction of the pulling force is pushed BACK.. quite hard. I believe this is the force that slowed down the plane (and I'm almost certain played a big part in the breaking up of the plane and why all 3 parts landed in different spots) as it neared the island (slowing down the falling humans in the process, who then fall at the slowed speed) I am not saying that the magnetic force itself slowed down the survivors, it slowed the plane which in turn slows down the survivors in the plane (law of inertia). Therefore, this explains why Kate and Jack were further in the beach entering the jungle and why people were everywhere. This also explains why the engine was still intact and one of the turbines were still spinning. If this plane would have dropped with out that pushing force of the discharge, there would be very little left and very FEW survivors and the remains of the plane would not have been saved (to then explode later by pulling a large man into the engine). I know this discharge force is real (in season 2 finale when the force grew stronger everything was being pulled to the magnet in the hatch, when Desmond turned the key, it had quite a powerful force pushing out instead of pulling in , and what causes the hatch door to fly way up and almost kill Claire and Bernard when it landed.)
The crash was weird, and odd and how many survived and how many parts of the plane were not demolished. This is my theory on the crash.
Theory by Ken
