Landing gear from September 11 attacks found by surveyors

[astronelson 339]

 

New York police say they have found a fragment of one of the two airplanes that slammed into the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001.

Police say the wreckage, believed to be "part of a landing gear, apparently from one of the commercial airliners" was found wedged between two office buildings in Lower Manhattan.

A spokesman for the New York Police Department (NYPD) says the area will be thoroughly examined for human remains.

"The NYPD is securing the location as it would a crime scene, documenting it photographically and restricting access until the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner completes its health and safety evaluation protocol, after which a decision will be made concerning sifting the soil for possible human remains," a statement said.

The part includes a clearly visible Boeing identification number. 

The aircraft was one of two commandeered 12 years ago by Al Qaeda extremists and flown into the twin towers, destroying the nation's most iconic buildings.

Authorities were alerted to the wreckage on Wednesday after surveyors hired by an owner of one of the two buildings found what they believed was damaged machinery.

 

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[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Debris like this is bound to turn up from time to time.  It is about as newsworthy as an unexploded German bomb found in London.

[Bdub01 201]

^ Didnt some debris from the Challenger explosion wash up shore last year sometime? And that happened in '86.

[Meg 368]

I believe an unexploded German bomb in London is newsworthy.  It still has the potential to harm people and needs to be dealt with carefully.

 

I believe the airplane part wedged between the buildings is newsworthy.   There could be unidentified human remains with it.

 

Yes, we know why the metal parts are there but the human component still needs to be addressed.  I would not write off events like this as irrelevant residue of mass casualties that happened a decade or seven ago.      I would not write off mass casualties at all. 

[Duke87 1,070]

Pretty tight space it got wedged into. What are the odds, eh?

 

There is another twist to this story that the Australian article doesn't mention: 51 Park Place, one of the buildings it's between, is the site of the proposed Islamic cultural center ("Ground Zero Mosque") that caused a bunch of controversy a few years ago.

Coincidence? Well, a lawyer for the property is claiming that it may have been planted there by opponents of the project.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Lawyers will stir any pot if it gets them any brownie points.

[AcmeSigns 97]

5' x 4' x 17" piece of landing gear dropped into an 18" wide space (1/2" clearance on either side) tells me it had to drop pretty much dead straight down. Assuming that it wasn't planted then it has to be some sort of miracle. Especially if it didn't cause any damage to the walls on it's way down. Once they have it out of there I'm sure more will be revealed.