Alex Rousseau Alex Rousseau Alexandra "Alex" Rousseau is a fictional character on the ABC television series "Lost" played by Tania Raymonde. She was born 16 years prior to the crash of Oceanic Flight 815, but was taken from her mother, Danielle Rousseau by the Others. She was raised among them, believing her mother to be dead. She has helped the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 on many occasions, and is reunited with her mother at the end of the third season. Not long after however, she is shot and killed by Keamy after her adoptive father, Ben, would not listen to his
American Trans-Oceanic Company also included a full-time flight school in Long Island and Palm Beach using Curtiss aircraft. New innovations were deployed, such as a Sperry autopilot. Rates varied from $15 for a 15-minute flight to $250 for a 320-mile flight to Cuba. Four five-hour flights a week were flown to Bimini at night. By 1918, the company carried four to five thousand passengers without incident. The company's most distinctive aircraft was "Big Fish", A Curtiss H-16 painted as a fish that flew between Palm Beach, Havana, Nassau, and New York City. In 1927, Wanamaker sponsored Richard E. Byrd through the American Trans-Oceanic