If the flaperon had been washed up with its serial number plate intact, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
A news report where a specialist examines a similar 777 flaperon shows that the serial plate is riveted to the flaperon, one rivet in each corner.
Whilst I understand that crash forces are chaotic and hydraulic pressures could have been extremely high I am still maddended that the serial plate and its rivets(?) were not found fixed to the flaperon.
Mickjoebill