Ilana Verdansky is a survivor of Ajira Flight 316, which crashes on the island in the sixth season. It's no accident that she is on the plane and she clearly has a connection to the island and quickly mounts a takeover of the group of survivors of her flight, along with a man named Bram. She knows far too much about the place and knocks Frank, the pilot of her plane, out when he can't answer her question, What lies in the shadow of the statue? Ilana was on board her flight after having captured Sayid, ostensibly as a bounty hunter working for the family of a man Sayid had killed.