Twelve years later, a rusted 5-foot-tall piece oflanding gear believed to be from one of the hijacked planes destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks has been discovered near the World Trade Center wedged between a luxury apartment building and a mosque site.
According to the NYPD’s Commissioner Raymond Kelly, the twisted metal part was jammed in an 18-inch-wide sliver of open space between the buildings, has cables and levers on it and is about 17 inches wide and 4 feet long.
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The part was discovered by surveyors inspecting the lower Manhattan site of a planned Islamic community center on behalf of the building’s owner on Wednesday. According to reports an inspector was on the roof and noticed the debris and then called 911. Police then secured the scene.
Commission Raymond Kelly says:
“It’s a manifestation of a horrific terrorist act a block and a half away from where we stand,” he said. “So, sure, it brings back terrible memories to anyone who was here or who was involved in that event.”
Police detectives and National Transportation Safety Board investigators will determine whether the equipment is from the American Airlines plane or the United Airlines plane that slammed into the twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001, destroying the towers and killing nearly 3,000 people.
SOURCE: Yahoo! News
