Frank Lapidus Frank Lapidus Frank J. Lapidus is a fictional character on the ABC television series "Lost" played by Jeff Fahey. Frank is introduced in the second episode of season four as a pilot hired on a mission to the island where Oceanic Flight 815 crashed. He aids the survivors of the crash against mercenary Martin Keamy (Kevin Durand) and helps to rescue a group who become known as the Oceanic Six. Three years later, Frank encounters the group again while working as a commercial airline pilot. His plane lands back on the island, and he is forcibly taken in by a
British Airways Flight 9 2010. Captain Eric Moody gave an interview to the July 2010 edition of Flaps Podcast, where he recounted his experience. The Discovery Channel Canada / National Geographic TV series "Mayday" featured Flight 9 in a 2007 episode titled "Falling From the Sky" or "All Engines Failed" which featured interviews with the flight crew and passengers, and a dramatization of the flight. A nearly identical incident occurred on 15 December 1989 when KLM Flight 867, a Boeing 747-400 en route from Amsterdam to Tokyo, flew into the plume of the erupting Mount Redoubt, causing all four engines to fail due to