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The 48 survivors on the beach got all the glory. They got the luggage, the shelter materials, the Dharma station, the doctor. The 22 from the tail section didn't fare as well. They were alone in the jungle with no resources and nobody to tend to their wounded. Hunted day and night, they lived in fear until some of the beach 48 found them.

But the other 26, the survivors from the cockpit and the lone seats that were thrown out of the plane when the tail section broke off, never found the other survivors. Ignored and forgotten by the Island, tormented by the mysterious howling beast in the trees, they clung to life by the skin of their teeth and struggled to keep each other safe.

Their story is never told, because none of them made it home to tell it.