[holden]

And this found portion weighs how many pounds? And It would displace how much water-by-weight?

It supposedly washed up from somewhere down deep in the water?

How much more plausible would it be that someone planted that flaperon there?

HF

[dmz]

How much more plausible would it be that someone planted that flaperon there?

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With the barnacles and such that are all over it ... not terribly plausible at all.

[McGruff]

Don’t be so cynical. That piece could have fell out of the sky and landed in that pristine green grass a long way from the water.

[beelzepug]

The high use of composites makes the flaperon a naturally buoyant surface. Flotation is further enhanced because its structure is hollow from the inside. The hollow encasing contains mostly pockets of air. In older aircraft, the entire structure was made of aluminum and metal alloys, but over the years, composite materials started to replace metal alloys in flight control devices of aircraft. Use of carbon-composite materials helps increase the life of the component and improves resistance to weather and external pressures on the surface.

[John Valentine]

Yoy can’t be serious.

[dinodino]

That’s retarded—you obviously don’t understand aircraft construction. This is a lightweight, watertight hollow section. It floats.