I thought I was over this, had almost convinced myself the 22v1 was from something else, but here it comes back, and still very intriguing, isn't it? Like Ric says, somebody had to have a passion of the moment to want to attack that piece of metal so viciously to be able to free it from whatever it was attached to! If we take it back to the simplest view of the whole analysis of the artifact 22v1 and put aside trying to figure out WHO removed it, or HOW it was removed, or WHAT is was used for afterward, and just focus on the fact (or the indication) that it was there, on the island -- It didn't just grow there, the Boobies didn't lay it, and whether or not it was used for a clambake or a signaling device, it was there! And it is extremely unlikely, in my mind, that it bubbled up from the depths or floated or washed ashore fromanother remote location. Meaning 22v1 had to be there and removed from whatever it was attached to at a time it was accessible (above water) and maybe removed in a panic before something else happened, like the plane was sinking and the tide was rising.
Since nothing else yet has been found on the island in a large enough chunk to be identified (OK maybe the Plexiglas was a window that was tried first to be knocked out) the rest of the plane must have vanished over the side of the reef. Got those subs ready yet, Ric?