<p>A piece of landing gear thought to be from one of the two aircraft that hijackers crashed into the World Trade Center Sep 11, 2001, was found near ground zero, a New York Police Department spokesman confirmed Friday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The NYPD established a crime scene at the site after receiving a call from the owners of a building at 51 Park Place in Lower Manhattan. The part bears a clearly visible Boeing identification number, police said Friday.<br /><br />Both of the planes used in the attack on the World Trade Center were manufactured by Boeing. Surveyors spotted the piece while inspecting the site of a future Islamic community center.<br /><br />Police said personnel from the medical examiner's office will conduct an evaluation before deciding whether to sift the soil around the find in search of human remains.<br /><br />"The aircraft part will not be removed until the process is completed, at which point it will secured by the NYPD Property Clerk," the NYPD deputy commissioner said in a statement.<br />Nearly 3,000 people died when the two planes slammed into the World Trade Center towers and a third hijacked aircraft struck the Pentagon.<br /><br />The fourth plane commandeered by Al Qaeda Sep 11 crashed in rural Pennsylvania.</p>
<p>A piece of landing gear thought to be from one of the two aircraft that hijackers crashed into the World Trade Center Sep 11, 2001, was found near ground zero, a New York Police Department spokesman confirmed Friday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The NYPD established a crime scene at the site after receiving a call from the owners of a building at 51 Park Place in Lower Manhattan. The part bears a clearly visible Boeing identification number, police said Friday.<br /><br />Both of the planes used in the attack on the World Trade Center were manufactured by Boeing. Surveyors spotted the piece while inspecting the site of a future Islamic community center.<br /><br />Police said personnel from the medical examiner's office will conduct an evaluation before deciding whether to sift the soil around the find in search of human remains.<br /><br />"The aircraft part will not be removed until the process is completed, at which point it will secured by the NYPD Property Clerk," the NYPD deputy commissioner said in a statement.<br />Nearly 3,000 people died when the two planes slammed into the World Trade Center towers and a third hijacked aircraft struck the Pentagon.<br /><br />The fourth plane commandeered by Al Qaeda Sep 11 crashed in rural Pennsylvania.</p>