Part of landing gear from 9/11 plane is found wedged between two Manhattan buildings - 11 years after the terror attacks on New York

• Police say the 5-foot piece of landing gear from one of the planes was found Wednesday lodged in a tiny alley just blocks from Ground Zero
  
• Scene being treated like a crime scene
  
• Medical Examiner will determine whether or not they search for human remains in the alley between the two lower Manhattan buildings

By Meghan Keneally
PUBLISHED: 21:05 GMT, 26 April 2013 | UPDATED: 22:25 GMT, 26 April 2013





Police have just found a sizable piece of one of the engines from a plane that crashed into the World Trade Center, more than 11 years after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

The piece of landing gear was found wedged between two buildings just blocks from Ground Zero- in between the buildings at 51 Park Place and 50 Murray Street in downtown Manhattan.

The address is particularly noteworthy because 51 Park Place is the site of the Islamic Cultural Center that stirred up controversy and months of protests two years ago when the site developers wanted to turn it into a mosque.

Police have secured the alley where the landing gear was found and are treating it as a crime scene as they investigate the area, and decide whether or not to search for possible human remains near the engine.

'There was some surveying being done on the property line there,' NYPD deputy commissioner Paul Browne told CBS radio Friday afternoon.

'To the surveyors, it just looked like some damaged machinery of some kind but upon further examination it was identified as a Boeing, some part of a Boeing landing craft.'

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Boeing confirms piece of 767 found blocks from Ground Zero WAS part of the wing flap from 9/11 plane

• 5-foot piece of landing gear from one of the planes from 9/11 was discovered just blocks from Ground Zero
  
• Found near 51 Park Place, the site of the Islamic center Park51
  
• Lawyer for mosque developer calls the part discovery a 'gimmick'
  
• Police probing whether the piece was intentionally planted by opponents to the Islamic community center
  
• Area is being treated like a crime scene as investigators search for human remains

By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 18:06 GMT, 29 April 2013 | UPDATED: 18:09 GMT, 29 April 2013



Boeing confirmed that the five-foot piece of rusted plane that was found behind the proposed location of a mosque just blocks from Ground Zero is in fact a part of one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center more than a decade ago.

Officials said the 5-foot piece is a trailing edge flap support structure, police said.

It is located closer to the body of the plane and helps secure wing flaps that move in and out and aid in regulating plane speed.

Investigators initially thought it was part of the landing gear because both pieces have similar-looking hydraulics.

Boeing officials told police the part came from one of its 767 airliners, but it isn't possible to determine which flight.

Both hijacked planes that struck the towers, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, were Boeing 767s.

Workers discovered the part Wednesday between a luxury loft rental building and a mosque that in 2010 prompted virulent national debate about Islam and freedom of speech in part because it's near the trade center site.

The airplane part was discovered wedged between 51 Park Place, the site of the proposed 13-story Islamic cultural center Park51, and 50 Murray Street, a luxury apartment building in TriBeCa.

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