Drug smugglers' plane
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The drug smugglers' plane is the remains of a Beechcraft 18 airplane that crashed on the Island. It carried on board a Nigerian drug smuggler disguised as a priest, a real priest and heroin hidden inside of Virgin Mary statues. It also had an on-board radio and maps of Nigeria.
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Off the Island
While in Nigeria, Eko, Goldie and Olu loaded the plane with Virgin Mary statues containing heroin to be taken out of the country. Eko's brother Yemi had come to warn Eko not to get on the plane. At this point, the military appeared and tried to stop the drug smugglers. Olu was gunned down by the military, and his brother was shot when he jumped in front of Eko, shielding him from the bullets. Goldie helped his wounded brother onto the plane, but then shoved Eko out and took off without him. ("The 23rd Psalm")
On the Island
At some unspecified time prior to the crash of Oceanic Flight 815, the Beechcraft crashed on the Island. Before the crash, Goldie parachuted off, but ended up stuck in a tree and died. The plane, with only Yemi left on board, crash-landed on the edge of a cliff. ("Deus Ex Machina")
Nikki and Paulo were the first survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 to come across the Beechcraft shortly after the crash of their plane. They saw the drug smugglers' plane on the edge of the cliff, but Paulo refused to go up because he was sure it would fall. Nikki was far more interested in their own search for the diamonds and she made them leave. ("Exposé")
A short while after that, Locke saw the drug smugglers' plane in a dream, a vivid vision of the plane crashing, his mother, and Boone covered in blood. Locke then took Boone into the jungle, following his foresight. First they found Goldie's dead body hanging down from his parachute, followed by their discovery of the plane itself. Suspecting there could be a radio inside, Boone climbed into the plane at the behest of Locke, whose legs were not functioning properly at that time.
Inside the plane, Boone tried to send a distress call using the cockpit radio. As the plane began to tip from Boone's weight, he heard a return transmission on the radio. The plane then fell to the ground below, fatally injuring Boone. ("Deus Ex Machina") It was later revealed that the person on the other end was in fact Bernard, a survivor from the tail section of Oceanic Flight 815, using the radio they found in the Arrow. ("The Other 48 Days")
A few days later, Locke took Sayid to the wreckage of the Beechcraft, to show him that his story of how Boone fell was true. ("The Greater Good") Again a few days after that, Sayid and Charlie came by the plane when they were looking for Danielle Rousseau, who had abducted Aaron Littleton. Sayid, not knowing about Charlie's past as a heroin addict, showed him the Virgin Mary statues. Charlie secretly took one of the statues with him, and later returned for more. ("Exodus, Part 2")
Some time after the plane fell, Tom was tasked with moving it on top of the Pearl hatch. ("Exposé")
Upon finding one of the Virgin Mary statues in Charlie's possession, Eko urged him to take him to the plane. They stumbled across Goldie's dead body in the jungle, and Eko found the dead body of his brother Yemi inside the Beechcraft. He took the cross his brother was wearing, put a statue in his arms, and ceremonially burned the plane.
Some time later, Locke and Eko returned to the Beechcraft while looking for the question mark from the blast door map. They discovered that the plane was lying near a huge question mark on the ground marking the site of the entrance to the Pearl ("?") where it had previously been moved by Tom.
Again some time later, Locke returned to the site along with Sayid, Desmond, Paulo and Nikki to find Eko and visit the Pearl. Eko investigated the plane and discovered that Yemi's body had disappeared, despite large boulders blocking the doors. ("The Cost of Living")
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- Goldie--was thrown out of the plane when it landed
- Yemi--burnt, and then went missing before "The Cost of Living"
- Eko's Cross--Eko took this from Yemi's body
- Virgin Mary statues containing heroin - numerous, mainly by or for Charlie, have been taken, others smashed
- A radio used by Boone to make contact with the radio the Tailies had
- A map of West Africa including Nigeria and the Sahara region
- A variety of debris, including a box with the stencil, "Hilton Tool and Machine Co." and addressed to the Bronx
Trivia
- Damon Lindelof has stated that the crash was not button related, but was caused by the island's magnetic attraction.
- The Beechcraft 18 has a range of 850 miles/1400 kilometers. The distance from Nigeria to Fiji is 11,000 miles/18000 km.
- In "Fire + Water", an Easter Egg is visible for those who are viewing the episode in widescreen format. As Charlie is looking at the angels of Claire and his mother, the plane can be seen in the background coming in for a crash landing.(Season 2 DVD)
Prop
The actual Beechcraft fuselage prop used by the production crew is stored in the same Dillingham Airfield (Waialua, HI) as the Lockheed L-1011 pieces.
The callsign of the plane in the runway scene was 5Z-GWN6. However, the callsign of the plane as discovered on the Island is N3785A. The 5Z- designation is used for Kenyan military aircraft (as compared to 5Y- for civilian) [1] [2] [3], whereas N3785A is the real callsign of the plane, which was a Beechcraft formerly registered in Maui, Hawaii.[4]
Unanswered questions
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- For fan theories about these unanswered questions, see: Drug smugglers' plane/Theories
- What was the smugglers' original destination?
- Why was the Beechcraft flying over the Pacific?
- How did the Beechcraft reach all the way to the Pacific?
