Post-crash timeline

On Wednesday 22 September 2004 at 2:55pm, Oceanic Airlines flight 815 took off from Sydney International Airport to 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 fatefull flight.

• 22 September 2004 (day 1)

1x01 Pilot (1)

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 cockpit sections. A Monster uproots trees and makes noises near the crash site.

2x07 The Other 48 Days

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.

• 23 September 2004 (day 2)

1x01 Pilot (1)

Jack, Kate and Charlie find the cockpit section in the jungle. The pilot survived. The pilot reveals that the plane was off course and is then killed by the Monster.

1x02 Pilot (2)

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.

• 24 September 2004 (day 3)

1x03 Tabula Rasa

Jack euthanizes the Marshal.

• 25 September 2004 (day 4)

Locke finds Vincent, and has Michael take him back to Walt. At night, boars go inside the fuselage.

• 26 September 2004 (day 5)

1x04 Walkabout

Locke encounters the Monster while hunting boar. A memorial service for the dead is held as the fuselage is burnt.

• 27 September 2004 (day 6)

1x05 White Rabbit

Barbara Joanna Miller drowns. Jack finds the caves and fresh water.

• 29 September 2004 (day 7)

1x06 House of the Rising Sun

Jack and Kate find two old corpses in the caves. Some of the survivors move from the beach to the caves.

• 29 September 2004 (day 8)
• 30 September 2004 (day 9)

1x07 The Moth

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.

• 1 October 2004 (day 10)
• 2 October 2004 (day 11)
• 1x08 Confidence Man

Sawyer is tortured by Sayid and is wounded in a scuffle. Sayid leaves the camp in shame.

• 3 October 2004 (day 12)

2x07 The Other 48 Days

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.

• 4 October 2004 (day 13)

1x09 Solitary

Sayid is captured by Danielle Rousseau.

• 5 October 2004 (day 14)

First Island Open Golf Tournament. Sayid escapes from Rousseau and hears whispers in the jungle.

• 6 October 2004 (day 15)

2x07 The Other 48 Days

After 3 days of walking, the remaining tail-section survivors make a camp in the jungle.

• 7 October 2004 (day 16)

1x10 Raised by Another

Claire is convinced that she was attacked in her sleep.

• 8 October 2004 (day 17)

1x11 All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues

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.

• 2x07 The Other 48 Days

Ana-Lucia starts work on a prison pit.

• 9 October 2004 (day 18)
• 10 October 2004 (day 19)

2x07 The Other 48 Days

Ana-Lucia thinks Nathan is one of Them and puts him in the prison pit.

• 11 October 2004 (day 20)
• 12 October 2004 (day 21)
• 13 October 2004 (day 22)

1x12 Whatever the Case May Be

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.

• 14 October 2004 (day 23)

Jack gives Kate the toy plane from the Marshal's case and takes custody of the guns.

2x07 The Other 48 Days

Goodwin releases Nathan from the pit, then breaks his neck and hides the body.

• 15 October 2004 (day 24)
• 16 October 2004 (day 25)

1x13 Hearts and Minds

Locke gives Boone an hallucinogenic experience in which he sees Shannon dead.

• 17 October 2004 (day 26)
• 18 October 2004 (day 27)

1x14 Special

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.

2x07 The Other 48 Days

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.

• 19 October 2004 (day 28)
• 20 October 2004 (day 29)

1x15 Homecoming

Scott is found murdered on the beach. Ethan is lured into an ambush and is captured. Charlie then shoots him four times, killing him.

• 21 October 2004 (day 30)

1x16 Outlaws

Sawyer's tent is raided by a boar. He hears whispers in the jungle.

• 22 October 2004 (day 31)

1x16 Outlaws

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.

• 23 October 2004 (day 32)

1x17 …In Translation

Walt sets fire to the raft.

• 24 October 2004 (day 33)

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.

• 25 October 2004 (day 34)

Jin helps start building a new raft.

• 26 October 2004 (day 35)

1x18 Numbers

Hurley finds Rousseau to ask about the numbers. She gives him a battery for the raft. Claire's birthday. Locke gives her a cradle he made for the baby.

• 27 October 2004 (day 36)
• 28 October 2004 (day 37)
• 29 October 2004 (day 38)
• 30 October 2004 (day 39)

1x19 Dues ex Machina

Locke and Boone try to break the hatch window with a crude trebuchet. Locke starts to loose the feelings in his legs.

• 1 November 2004 (day 40)
• 2 November 2004 (day 41)

Sayid makes a pair of glasses for Sawyer and then takes Shannon out on a date. 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. The hatch window lights up as Locke sobs over it.

1x20 Do No Harm

Boone Carlyle dies. Claire gives birth to a healthy baby boy.

2x07 The Other 48 Days

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.

• 3 November 2004 (day 42)

1x21 The Greater Good

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.

• 4 November 2004 (day 43)

1x22 Born to Run

Sayid takes Jack to the hatch. Dr 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 fugitive so he can keep his spot on the raft.

• 5 November 2004 (day 44)

1x23 Exodus (1)

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.

1x23 Exodus (2)

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.

• 6 November 2004 (day 45)

2x01 Man of Science, Man of Faith

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.

2x02 Adrift

Sawyer, Michael and Jin wash up on the far side of the island, and are promptly captured by the tail-section survivors.

2x03 Orientation

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.

• 7 November 2004 (day 46)

2x04 Everybody Hates Hugo

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.

• 8 November 2004 (day 47)

2x05 ...And Found

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.

2x06 Abandoned

Shannon sees another vision of Walt, this time in her tent. Eko, Michael and Jin catch up with Ana-Lucia

• 9 November 2004 (day 48)

Shannon sets out to look for Walt. Sayid follows her. 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.

2x08 Collision

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.

• 10 November 2004 (day 49)

2x09 What Kate Did

Kate sees a black horse in the jungle. 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. Locke and Eko watch the missing piece of film. Michael receives a message on the computer from someone claiming to be Walt.

• 11 November 2004 (day 50)

2x10 The 23rd Psalm

Eko takes Charlie's Virgin Mary statue and smashes it in front of Claire, revealing the heroin. He then forces Charlie into the jungle to look for the plane. Michael secretly talks on the computer with the person claiming to be Walt. Eko has an experience with the Monster that Charlie witnesses. They find the plane that has Eko's brother's corpse in it. Eko turns the plane into a funeral pyre. Claire kicks Charlie out of her life.

• 12 November 2004 (day 51)

2x11 - The Hunting Party

Michael locks Jack and Locke in the gun vault and goes to look for Walt. Jack, Locke, Sawyer, and secretly Kate pursue him. The Others surround them at night and Mr Friendly warns them to turn back, using Kate as a hostage. Reluctantly they drop their guns and head back with Kate.

• 13 November 2004 (day 52)

Back on the beach, Jack asks Ana-Lucia how long she thinks it would take to train an army.

• 14 November 2004 (day 53)

2x12 - Fire + Water

Charlie asks Claire to go back to the way things were. Sawyer notes that Jack and Ana-Lucia have made at least three trips into the jungle. At night, Charlie has a nightmare and finds that he has sleepwalked and taken Aaron. Claire slaps him.

• 15 November 2004 (day 54)

Charlie tries to get Locke to put in a good word for him with Claire. Charlie lies to him about not having any more Virgin Mary 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. At night, Charlie starts a fire in the woods near the beach, then attempts to steal Aaron so he can be baptised.

• 16 November 2004 (day 55)

Charlie admits to Jack that he started the fire. Claire goes to see Eko about baptising her and Aaron. Locke puts the heroin into the gun vault.