For events before the crash of Oceanic Flight 815, see pre-crash timeline
Oceanic Airlines flight 815 took off from Kingsford Smith International Airport in Sydney, Australia, bound for Los Angeles. The flight was due to take 13 hours, but 6 hours into the flight, the plane lost radio and radar contact. It flew for a further 2 hours before breaking up into 3 pieces and crashing onto a "deserted" island in the Pacific Ocean.
This is the timeline of the survivors from that fateful flight.
Day 1 - September 22, 2004
- Oceanic Airlines flight 815, en route from Sydney to Los Angeles, breaks into three pieces and crashes onto an island in the South Pacific. There are 50 survivors from the middle and front sections. A Monster uproots trees and makes noises near the crash site.
- The tail section of Oceanic Flight 815 crashes on another part of the island. Minutes after the crash, Goodwin rushes out of the jungle dressed as a crash-survivor. He asks to get help for Bernard, whose seat landed in a tree. They take 3 people from the tail section survivors and try to take Eko, but he kills two of them. As a result, Eko stops speaking.
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- Desmond accidentally kills Kelvin during a dispute. He fails to return to the Swan on time, resulting in the first discharge that causes Flight 815 to break up in mid-air.
Day 2 - September 23, 2004
- Jack, Kate, and Charlie find the front section in the jungle. The pilot survived. The pilot reveals that the plane was off course and is then killed by the Monster.
- Sayid, Kate, Sawyer, Charlie, Shannon, and Boone go into the jungle to find a high spot from which to send a distress call. Sawyer shoots a polar bear. They hear Rousseau's distress call and Sayid calculates it has been playing for 16 years and 5 months.
Day 3 - September 24, 2004
- Jack euthanizes the Marshal.
Day 4 - September 25, 2004
Day 5 - September 26, 2004
- Locke encounters the Monster while hunting boar. A memorial service for the dead is held as the fuselage is burnt.
Day 6 - September 27, 2004
- Joanna drowns. Jack follows an image of his father, Christian Shephard, and finds the caves and fresh water.
Day 7 - September 28, 2004
- Jack and Kate find two old corpses in the caves that have been there 40 to 50 years. Some of the survivors move from the beach to the caves.
Day 8-9 - September 29-30, 2004
- Jack is trapped when one of the caves collapses. Charlie helps him escape. Sayid is attacked when he is trying to triangulate the source of the distress call.
Day 10-11 - October 1-2, 2004
- Sawyer is tortured by Sayid and is wounded in a scuffle. Sayid leaves the camp in shame.
Day 12 - October 3, 2004
- They attack the tail section's camp and drag off 9 more people. Ana-Lucia kills one and finds a U.S. Army knife and a list describing the nine who were taken.
Day 13 - October 4, 2004
- Sayid is captured by Danielle Rousseau.
Day 14 - October 5, 2004
- First Island Open Golf Tournament
- Sayid escapes from Rousseau and hears whispers in the jungle.
Day 15 - October 6, 2004
- After 3 days of walking, the remaining tail-section survivors make a camp in the jungle.
Day 16 - October 7, 2004
- Claire is convinced that she was attacked in her sleep.
Day 17 - October 8, 2004
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- Claire and [[Charlie are taken by Ethan.
- Sayid returns to the caves just as Hurley tells everyone that one of the survivors was not on the plane.
- The tide comes further up the beach than normal and starts washing the fuselage into the ocean.
- Charlie is left for dead by Ethan but revived by Jack. Boone and Locke find the hatch in the jungle.
- Ana-Lucia starts work on a prison pit.
Day 18-19 - October 9-10, 2004
Day 20-22 - October 11-12, 2004
- Kate and Sawyer discover two bodies from the plane and a Halliburton case in a pool by a waterfall.
- The beach survivors start to move their camp further up the coast.
Day 23 - October 13, 2004
- Jack gives Kate the toy plane from the Marshal's case.
- Jack takes custody of the guns.
Day 24-25 - October 14-15, 2004
- Locke gives Boone a hallucinogenic experience in which he sees Shannon dead.
Day 26-27 - October 16-17, 2004
- Michael starts to build a raft.
- Walt is menaced by a polar bear.
- Locke and Boone find Claire wandering in the jungle in the middle of the night.
- The tail section survivors find the entrance to the Arrow bunker.
- A radio is found inside.
- Ana-Lucia and Goodwin go off to try the radio.
- Ana-Lucia knows Goodwin is one of Them and tries to get information from him.
- There is a struggle and Goodwin is impaled on a spear.
Day 28-29 - October 18-19, 2004
- Scott is found murdered on the beach.
- Ethan is lured into an ambush and is captured.
- Charlie then shoots him four times, killing him.
Day 30 - October 20, 2004
Day 31 - October 21, 2004
- Charlie and Hurley bury Ethan.
- Kate offers to help Sawyer track down his boar in exchange for access to his stash.
- Sawyer returns the gun to Jack, inadvertently learning that he met Jack's father in a Sydney bar.
Day 32 - October 22, 2004
Day 33 - October 23, 2004
- Sawyer brings Jin to the beach for a confrontation with Michael.
- To save her husband from an unwarranted beating, Sun speaks English in front of everyone.
- Jin leaves Sun and moves to the beach.
Day 34 - October 24, 2004
Day 35 - October 25, 2004
- Hurley finds Rousseau to ask about the numbers.
- Rousseau gives Hurley a battery for the raft.
- Claire's birthday.
- Locke gives Claire a cradle he made for the baby.
Day 36-39 - October 26-27, 2004
- Locke and Boone try to break the hatch window with a crude trebuchet.
- Locke starts to lose the feelings in his legs.
Day 40-42 - October 28-29, 2004
- Sayid makes a pair of glasses for Sawyer.
- Locke and Boone find a drug smuggler's plane from Nigeria.
- Locke finds a gun on a dead smuggler.
- Boone climbs up to the plane and finds drugs inside models of the Madonna.
- Boone also finds a radio, and when he says he is a survivor of flight 815, a reply comes from other survivors.
- Boone is critically injured when the plane falls from its precarious position.
- Sayid takes Shannon out on a date.
- The hatch window lights up as Locke sobs over it.
- Boone Carlyle dies.
- Claire gives birth to a healthy baby boy.
- Bernard tries the radio and picks up Boone's transmission.
- Ana-Lucia thinks it is Them trying to find the tail section survivors and turns the radio off.
- After 40 days Eko speaks again.
Day 43 - October 30, 2004
- Locke re-appears at Boone's funeral.
- Jack accuses him of lying and then attacks him.
- Locke takes Sayid to the plane.
- Sayid interrogates Locke and confiscates the Nigerian smuggler's gun from him.
- Shannon steals a gun from the gun case and tries to kill Locke but Sayid stops her.
- Sayid demands that Locke take him to the hatch.
Day 44 - October 31, 2004
- Sayid takes Jack to the hatch.
- Arzt warns Michael that it is nearly the Monsoon season and the raft has to be launched as soon as possible.
- Sawyer forces Kate to reveal that she was the Marshall's prisoner so he can keep his spot on the raft.
Day 45 - November 1, 2004
- Rousseau walks into the beach camp and warns the survivors that the Others are coming.
- Hurley and Rousseau are taken to the hatch.
- Locke suggests that they get dynamite to blow open the hatch.
- Jack organizes an expedition to the Black Rock to get the dynamite.
- Walt gives Shannon Vincent to take care of her.
- She promises to look after him until he gets back.
- The raft is launched.
- Arzt dies at the Black Rock.
- Rousseau kidnaps Claire's son.
- Charlie and Sayid set out to bring him back.
- Locke is nearly pulled underground by the Monster.
- Locke, Jack, Kate and Hurley use the dynamite to blow open the hatch.
- The raft is attacked and destroyed by the Others.
- Walt is kidnapped.
Day 46
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- Locke, Kate and Jack separately enter the hatch to find Desmond in the Swan bunker.
- They find that every 108 minutes he has to enter a series of numbers.
- They are Hurley's winning lottery numbers.
- Sawyer, Michael and Jin wash up on the far side of the island, and are promptly captured by the tail-section survivors.
- After accidentally damaging the Swan bunker's computer, Desmond runs off into the jungle.
- Ana-Lucia is dumped into the pit prison to find out who Sawyer, Michael and Jin are.
Day 47
- Michael, Sawyer and Jin are let out by the tail survivors and are taken to the Arrow bunker.
- Hurley takes Rose to the Swan bunker where they catalogue the food. The fuselage survivors feast on the Swan bunker food.
Day 48
- Ana-Lucia decides to move the remaining tail-section survivors across the island to meet the fuselage survivors.
- Michael races off into the jungle looking for the people who took his son.
- Jin and Eko go after him and see a group of people pass by their hiding spot.
- Jin and Eko convince Michael to come back with them.
- Shannon sees another vision of Walt, this time in her tent.
- Eko, Michael and Jin catch up with Ana-Lucia
- Shannon sets out to look for Walt, and Sayid follows.
- Sawyer's infected bullet wound causes him to pass out.
- Michael and Eko build a stretcher.
- Cindy vanishes without a trace when the tail survivors struggle to get Sawyer up a steep hill.
- Shannon is accidentally shot dead by Ana-Lucia.
- Eko carries Sawyer to the Swan bunker.
- Michael finds Sun and is taken to Jack in the bunker.
- Michael, Jin, and the tail survivors arrive on the beach and reunite with the fuselage survivors.
- Jack and Ana-Lucia meet up in the jungle.
Day 49
- Shannon is buried.
- Eko shows Locke the Bible containing the missing film splice.
- Sawyer feels good enough to walk with Kate's assistance. They both see the black horse outside.
- Michael receives a message on the computer from someone claiming to be Walt.
Day 50
- Eko learns about the drug smuggler's plane, forces Charlie to take him there. They encounter the Monster.
- Michael secretly talks on the computer with the person claiming to be Walt.
- Eko and Charlie find the plane, which has the body of Eko's brother in it. Eko turns the plane into a funeral pyre.
- Claire kicks Charlie out.
Day 51
- Michael locks Jack and Locke in the gun vault and goes to look for Walt. Jack, Locke, Sawyer, and Kate (unknown to them) pursue him.
- Michael encounters Pickett in the jungle and is captured by Mr. Friendly.
- That night Jack, Locke, and Sawyer encounter the Others and Mr. Friendly warns them to turn back, using Kate as a hostage.
- Michael is brought back to the Others' camp.
- Back on the beach, Jack asks Ana-Lucia how long she thinks it would take to train an army.
Day 52
- Charlie asks Claire to go back to the way things were.
- That night, Charlie has a nightmare and finds that he has sleepwalked and taken Aaron. Claire slaps him.
Day 53
- Charlie tries to get Locke to put in a good word for him with Claire. Charlie lies to him about not having any more statues.
- Eko and Charlie talk about his dreams. Charlie thinks they mean that Aaron needs to be baptised.
- Locke follows Charlie to his stash and confiscates the drugs.
- That night, Charlie starts a fire in the woods so he can kidnap Aaron.
- Mr. Friendly, Alex Rousseau, Pickett, and Michael, and some more of the Others arrive at the Others' camp.
- Ms. Klugh introduces herself to Michael and starts asking him questions about Walt.
Day 54
- Charlie admits to Jack that he started the fire.
- Claire goes to see Eko about baptising her and Aaron.
- Locke changes the gun vault combination and puts the Mary statues into the gun vault.
Day 55
- Jack gives Locke the handguns, which are locked with the rest of the weapons in the armoury.
- Hurley gives Sayid the radio from the Tailies; that evening the two of them listen to music on it.
- Sun is attacked in her garden, and found unconscious in the jungle.
- Locke moves the weapons from the armoury to keep Jack from getting ahold of them.
- Sawyer has Charlie follow Locke and steal the cache Locke hid.
Day 56
- Rousseau takes Sayid to a man she has captured in a net; Rousseau wounds him with a crossbow.
- Sayid takes the man (who says his name is "Henry Gale") back to the Hatch to interrogate him. "Gale" claims to have crashed on the island while flying across the Pacific in a balloon along with his wife; she died 2 weeks ago.
- Jack fights with Locke to stop the interrogation; Locke is late pressing the button, and strange hieroglyphics appear on the clock face.
Day 57
- Aaron develops a rash and fever that Claire decides is the "illness" spoken of by Rousseau.
- Claire and Kate look for Rousseau, hoping Rousseau will show Claire where she had found her.
- The three of them retrace Claire's steps to the Medical Station where she was held.
- In a locker, Kate finds a false beard and theatrical glue along with clothes worn by Zeke.
Day 58
- Locke asks Ana-Lucia to question Henry Gale
- Sun finds out that she's pregnant.
- Ana, Charlie, and Sayid set out to investigate Henry Gale's claims
Day 59
- Ana, Charlie, and Sayid find the clearing on Henry's map
- Sun tells Jin that she's pregnant
- Henry is let out to eat cereal
- The Swan station undergoes a bizarre and unexplained lockdown as the blast doors come down, shutting Locke and Henry Gale inside and cutting them off from the computer room.
- At the time the Countdown Timer runs down, the lights shut off and ultraviolet black light comes on revealing a heavily annotated map on one of the doors.
- Ana, Charlie and Sayid find the balloon and grave Gale told them about. The grave holds the body of the real Henry Gale.
- Jack wins the medical supplies back from Sawyer in a poker game.
- Jack and Kate find a parachute and large net containing a pallet of supplies on their way between the beach and Swan Station.
- Ana, Charlie and Sayid meet Jack and Kate and join them to confront the faux Henry Gale.
Day 60
- Hurley gets rid of his stash only to find more food appeared on the island, presumably dropped from a plane.
- Hurley sees Dave, his imaginary friend.
- Locke gets a pair of crutches and Sayid and Ana interrogate Henry Gale.
- Libby and Hurley kiss.
- After telling Locke that he didn't enter the numbers, the fake Henry Gale stops talking, eating or drinking.
Day 61
- Michael begins to believe that his son is dead.
- Ms. Klugh tells him that he's right outside and Michael demands to see him.
- Michael gets three minutes to spend with Walt but the time is cut short when Walt begins telling Michael "they're not who they seem".
- Ms. Klugh tells Michael that if he completes a mission he can have Walt and they can go free. The mission is to free the prisoner in the Swan and bring Jack, Kate, Hurley, and Sawyer back to the Others' camp. Michael agrees but says he also wants the boat.
Day 62
- Jack changes the prisoner's bandage and tells him he's going to offer a prisoner exchange, him for Walt
- Bernard attempts to build a huge SOS sign but gives up after Rose tells him that the island healed her and she's afraid to leave.
- Jack and Kate attempt a prisoner exchange with the Others. They find Michael.
- The prisoner attacks Ana-Lucia and nearly kills her before Locke intervenes.
Day 63
- The prisoner tells Locke he was coming for him.
- Jack and Kate return with Michael.
- Ana-Lucia and Sawyer get "caught in a net" and Ana steals Sawyer's gun.
- Michael shoots Ana Lucia (fatally), Libby, wounds self, and releases the prisoner.
- Eko has a dream/vision of his brother and Ana Lucia that tells him to talk to John Locke about "the question mark".
- Eko and Locke set out in search of the mysterious "?"
- They find the Beechcraft and make camp for the night.
Day 64
- Locke and Eko find the Pearl station underneath the drug smuggler plane.
- Libby dies, but manages to say "Michael" before passing.
- Michael returns to camp.
- Jack gets the guns back from Sawyer.
- Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sawyer, and Michael get ready to venture into the jungle to get Walt back.
- Sayid confronts Jack about Michael leading them into a trap. He has been comprimised
- Eko discontinues the Church to move into the hatch. When questioned about it by Charlie, he replies he now has to do something else.
- Vincent brings Charlie to Sawyer's stash. He takes out the statues containing the heroin and disposes of them in the ocean.
- Libby and Ana-Lucia are buried, and during the funeral Sun sees a sailboat on the horizon coming straight towards them.
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- Locke tells Mr. Eko not to push the button. After a confrontation Eko throws Locke out of the hatch and tells him not to come back.
Day 65
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- Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sawyer and Michael leave for The Others' camp.
- Sayid, Jin and Sun leave in the sailboat for The Others' camp.
- Locke tells Desmond about The Pearl.
Day 66
22x23 Live Together, Die Alone
- Kate shoots (and kills) one of The Others after she detects two of them following her party through the jungle. The second one escapes.
- Locke and Desmond return to The Hatch and decide not to Push the Button.
- Desmond triggers the a hatch lockdown. This locks Mr. Eko out and locks Desmond and Locke in.
- Mr. Eko finds dynamite with the help of Charlie. He unsuccessfully uses it to try to open the blast door.
- After viewing the Log printout, Desmond realizes that he caused Oceanic Flight 815 to crash on the island.
- Locke and Desmond trigger a System failure. Desmond uses the Fail Safe key.
- The Discharge occurs and is seen across the island.
- Michael and Walt leave the island on a heading of 325 degrees using the Others' boat
- The Listening Station detects "Electromagnetism Activity" and Penelope Widmore is called.