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Originally Posted by darkalpha
Personally, I think the author gave up on the story.
He came up with an interesting concept of bunch of school students stuck on an island of extinct animals (plus fanservice) and ran with it, but I doubt he actually thought about HOW they got on the island in the first place. So he ended up slowly writing himself into a corner and couldn't figure out how to tie up all the loose ends. So he got tired of dealing with the mess he got himself into, and lost interest/motivation with the work. Better tie up the main loose end (the truth behind the Raika Island) and then end the story so he can move on to something else that he's raring to do instead. The fact that he's already planning a new story shows how eager he is to drop Cage of Eden.
So he comes up with the idea of Flight 2307 being shunted into future somehow. Everyone believes the flight lost, so Yoshimi Isurugi and then later Yuna Sengoku builds Raika island as memorial to the missing Flight 2307, in the area where the flight was presumed to have disappeared. Eventually the island is completed, and later abandoned by humans... only to serve as landing spot for the Flight 2307 that coincidentally re-appears after some untold years.
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I honestly doubt it. Look at the last panel on this page:
http://www.batoto.net/read/_/656/cag...-hawk-scans/27
And the next 2 pages. The next two pages are supposed to be a double spread which would look like this:
http://www.abload.de/img/eden1_032-33vujw.jpg
If the author didn't know the reason for the time travel he wouldn't draw the plane crash like this. He would draw it more 'ambiguous'.
And also, the fact that the dead pilot seems to have known "something" about the island and that he said they must get off of it or they couldn't ever return + the fact that the plane was undamaged which, by the pilots' comment, wasn't because of his skill, all point to the fact that the author knew, at least roughly, what exactly happened at the plane crash.