[h=4]Julia Xanthos/New York Daily News[/h]Scene outside of 51 Park Place, where landing gear from one of jets to hit twin towers in 2001 terror attacks was discovered on Friday.
Police confirmed Saturday that the piece of plane wreckage found behind the controversial “Ground Zero Mosque” was from a Boeing 767.
Curious passersby flocked to the controversial building, a day after cops revealed landing gear from a hijacked 9/11 plane was found at the site. Both planes that hit the twin towers were Boeing 767s.
Investigators on Monday will begin trying to determine which plane the twisted metal came from before ending up behind 51 Park Place, where it was found Wednesday.
The landing gear has a number on it, but experts say it’s a casting number — referring only to the mold the piece came from — and can’t be used to connect the wreckage to a specific plane, experts say.
Other numbers — possibly a serial number — could be found when the wreckage is removed from the cramped alley and examined, experts said.
A rope, which appears to be wrapped around the artifact, isn’t part of a Boeing landing gear system — fueling theories that someone placed the 9/11 relic there.
Yet Alan Davis, who lives nearby, said he doesn’t believe such a hoax could be pulled off. “Where would they get it from?” he asked.
Police confirmed Saturday that the piece of plane wreckage found behind the controversial “Ground Zero Mosque” was from a Boeing 767.
Curious passersby flocked to the controversial building, a day after cops revealed landing gear from a hijacked 9/11 plane was found at the site. Both planes that hit the twin towers were Boeing 767s.
Investigators on Monday will begin trying to determine which plane the twisted metal came from before ending up behind 51 Park Place, where it was found Wednesday.
The landing gear has a number on it, but experts say it’s a casting number — referring only to the mold the piece came from — and can’t be used to connect the wreckage to a specific plane, experts say.
Other numbers — possibly a serial number — could be found when the wreckage is removed from the cramped alley and examined, experts said.
A rope, which appears to be wrapped around the artifact, isn’t part of a Boeing landing gear system — fueling theories that someone placed the 9/11 relic there.
Yet Alan Davis, who lives nearby, said he doesn’t believe such a hoax could be pulled off. “Where would they get it from?” he asked.