Lost (TV series) Outstanding Drama Series in 2005, Best American Import at the British Academy Television Awards in 2005, the Golden Globe Award for Best Drama in 2006, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series. Users of IMDb.com Pro gave "Lost" the highest average ranking for any television series during the first ten years (2002–2012) of that website's operation. Season 1 begins with the aftermath of a plane crash, which leaves the surviving passengers of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 on what seems to be an uninhabited tropical island. Jack Shephard, a doctor, becomes their leader. Their survival
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