Oceanic Flight 815
Tuesday, 20th November 2007 by James Turnbull
No-one could deny that it’s got more and more stupid with each passing episode, but somehow many of us are still hooked on Lost1, the TV show about large group of good-looking people stuck on a mysterious island.
In what was the most expensive pilot episode of all time, a plane crashed onto a beach. Part of this expense can be attributed to the use of a real passenger jet as a set for the downed aircraft.
According to Lostpedia, the fictional Oceanic flight 815 was a Boeing 777, but the part was actually played by a chopped-up Lockheed L-1011 TriStar. The nose section of this plane is kept under cover, on location in Hawaii:
Before it began its TV career the plane was owned by Delta airlines and had flown some 58,841 flight-hours without crashing onto any desert islands. The fuselage section of the plane is kept closer to the beach where filming happens:
Previously on Google Sightseeing: 4,8,15,16,23,42 - finding the Lost island
Thanks: Lostpedia
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Annoyingly, Lost doesn’t return to TV until February 2008, meaning that I’ve wasted hours of my life reading theories and wild speculation on Lostpedia and watching the new "missing scene shorts" shorts - or rather, "mobisodes" (which is easily the worst name for anything I've ever heard. Ever.) ↩︎
I deny it. Though I do miss the Hatch/Swan very badly. Someday I will build a Hatch of my own. …Well, I can hope, ok?
Uhm, ‘scuse me but I am here to deny that it “”it’s got more and more stupid with each passing episode”” Not even close. DId you not see the end of Season 3? Count me in as totally hooked and totally impressed.
Wow , it’s me that spotted the nose on GE and submitted it on Lostpedia … And now it’s on googlesightseeing … I’m feeling famous 😉 Enough ego for tonight I think …
Cool entry. Glad to see the U.S. of A. getting some Google Sightseeing “airplay” for once.
If by “more and more stupid”, you mean “increasingly intriguing”, then I suppose I could agree with you.
If by “mobisodes”, you mean “easily the worst name for anything–” Oh wait, nevermind. 🙂
@PhilippeP: Thanks 😀
@Patrick/Spamboy: I’ll happily admit that I’m still hooked on Lost, and very excited abut the new series, but surely you’ll agree that it’s got much sillier than when it started. Desmond can see into the future? The scene with “invisible” Jacob in the cabin? etc!
If you look at the pier to the southeast I think you can see Matthew Fox’s Ego.
Wow, I didn’t know it was filmed there. I had some free time when I went out to Hawaii for work and drove right up to this beach. They weren’t filming at the time, but, funny story, I also parked across the road from the airfield to walk out to the water and a local stopped and told me not to leave my car because this is a “high crime” area where people just drive up, smash the window, grab what they can and drive off.
Just across the water, the Kaneohe Bay Marine Corps Air Station encapsulates quite a number of recent posts quite nicely, from a short runway, to a dry-land aircraft-carrier practice layout, to a number of closed runways. The number of helis there must make filming when they’re not buzzing the area quite difficult. At least we now know help’s not far way (unless, of course, they’re part of the conspiracy…)
“Mobisode”?
How about “Webinar”?