From TV Guide, "Ask Ausiello":
Question: Lost spoilers, pretty please!! — Caroline
Ausiello: Don't beg, Caroline. It's beneath what little dignity you have. Anyway, producers Damon Lindelof and Javier Grillo-Marxuach apparently let the scoop fly at the first ever Lost convention in Burbank, Calif., two weeks ago. Among the Season 2 tidbits dropped by the duo: The marooned passengers will find the tail section of the plane, as well as the survivors who were seated there, prompting Charlie to declare, "Look — it's the chick from Girlfight!" Sawyer will survive the bullet wound he sustained on the raft; and those pirates are, in fact, "the Others." Also, Lindelof confirmed that Oceanic Flight 815 "did not crash by accident. It crashed for a very specific reason." (Yeah, to save ABC)