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Bosonic

(3,746 posts)
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 05:18 PM Apr 2013

New York police find 'part of 9/11 plane landing gear'

Source: BBC

New York Police have found part of the landing gear of what is believed to be one of jets flown into the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001.

The piece - including a clearly visible Boeing identification number - was found wedged between two New York City buildings, police said.

It was found on Wednesday by surveyors inspecting a lower Manhattan building.

...

The New York Police Department has secured the area behind 51 Park Place and 50 Murray Street as a crime scene.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22319253

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New York police find 'part of 9/11 plane landing gear' (Original Post) Bosonic Apr 2013 OP
The link below has more info and PHOTOS Tx4obama Apr 2013 #1
Is it just me, or it is a weird coincidence that... CincyDem Apr 2013 #2
another coincidence thesquanderer Apr 2013 #5
Isn't the Community Centre already up and running? Brimley Apr 2013 #6
Yeah, she's worth an exception. mountain grammy Apr 2013 #23
Not really, wasn't that building hit by debris and condemned? sweetloukillbot Apr 2013 #8
There is some suggestion that it may have been planted there to raise hell MADem Apr 2013 #32
So much for reconstruction Politicalboi Apr 2013 #3
There are plenty of cases where the NTSB doesn't reconstruct Blue_Tires Apr 2013 #7
Reconstruction is done to help determine the cause of a crash. Hassin Bin Sober Apr 2013 #11
I can only assume that this find contradicts your favorite conspiracy theory (nt) Nye Bevan Apr 2013 #13
Yep, keep telling yourself that. AtheistCrusader Apr 2013 #21
Why would they reconstruct a plane when we know why it went down (it was flown into a building)? nt SylviaD Apr 2013 #22
Yeah, because the cause of that crash was such a huge fucking mystery. Codeine Apr 2013 #24
Would a landing gear have a braided rope like that? louis-t Apr 2013 #4
Just looks like scrap except for... CincyDem Apr 2013 #14
Probably the nose gear. Cables are used for turning. Angleae Apr 2013 #34
No big surprise... Blue_Tires Apr 2013 #9
And what of the Pentagon? Brimley Apr 2013 #10
Paging Alex Jones... progressoid Apr 2013 #12
Nonsense. GoneFishin Apr 2013 #15
Oh dear Gawd here we go... alcibiades_mystery Apr 2013 #16
Planes? What planes? jberryhill Apr 2013 #17
No windows! Odd asymmetrical "pod"! alcibiades_mystery Apr 2013 #18
There is no dungeon jberryhill Apr 2013 #19
Gahahaha alcibiades_mystery Apr 2013 #20
Pictures convey the narrow gap between the adjacent buildings. dipsydoodle Apr 2013 #25
I hope they get the rest of the 'debris' from that small space. remains? :( Sunlei Apr 2013 #26
Pfff shape shifting lizard missile lasers don't have landing gears. Who are they trying to fool? octothorpe Apr 2013 #27
MIHOP or LIHOP... ileus Apr 2013 #28
How did it get in there? Rosa Luxemburg Apr 2013 #29
This WAS one of the bits that flew off Hekate Apr 2013 #30
This is near Murray & Church where an engine was found William Seger Apr 2013 #31
good clear vid, yes it clearly shows several large parts ejected in that direction. Sunlei Apr 2013 #33

CincyDem

(6,283 posts)
2. Is it just me, or it is a weird coincidence that...
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 05:26 PM
Apr 2013


The part was found by surveyors doing their work at 51 Park Place for an Islamic Community Center ?

thesquanderer

(11,955 posts)
5. another coincidence
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 05:45 PM
Apr 2013

same time as the library opening commemorating what Bush did to this country after 9/11.

 

Brimley

(139 posts)
6. Isn't the Community Centre already up and running?
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 05:54 PM
Apr 2013

I don't hate many people (hey, it's unCanadian!), but Pamela Geller is one of my exceptions.

sweetloukillbot

(10,814 posts)
8. Not really, wasn't that building hit by debris and condemned?
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 05:55 PM
Apr 2013

That was one of the reasons why there was so much outrage - it was "sacred" because it was damaged in 9/11 and now they were turning it into a mosque...

MADem

(135,425 posts)
32. There is some suggestion that it may have been planted there to raise hell
Sun Apr 28, 2013, 01:02 AM
Apr 2013

about that use for that building...

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
3. So much for reconstruction
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 05:26 PM
Apr 2013

Which the FAA does for EVERY downed plane except for those involved in 9/11. Amazing. We at least should of had one reconstruction with the Pa plane. LOL! But no, we Americans don't deserve it I guess. We just have to take their word. But it works, a lot of people believe their stupid story. Even that pathetic feel good story of flight 93. Let's roll. LOL!

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
7. There are plenty of cases where the NTSB doesn't reconstruct
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 05:55 PM
Apr 2013

especially in instances where they already *know* what brought the plane down...

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,273 posts)
11. Reconstruction is done to help determine the cause of a crash.
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 05:57 PM
Apr 2013

Kinda unnecessary, eh? ... when we all watched it fly in to a building.

louis-t

(23,199 posts)
4. Would a landing gear have a braided rope like that?
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 05:43 PM
Apr 2013

Maybe it's steel braided cable, but it doesn't look like landing gear. More like elevator apparatus.

CincyDem

(6,283 posts)
14. Just looks like scrap except for...
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 06:23 PM
Apr 2013


...the Boeing number plate. Can't imagine most folks would see that and jump to the "plane part" conclusion. Maybe in that neighborhood ? Don't know.
 

Brimley

(139 posts)
10. And what of the Pentagon?
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 05:57 PM
Apr 2013

Yes, this Gawdless Socialist Foreigner has serious doubts about The Gospel of George Jr.

 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
18. No windows! Odd asymmetrical "pod"!
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 06:40 PM
Apr 2013

Where are the passengers?????

Does this mean CS will be allowed out of the dungeon like the crazy gunners?

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
19. There is no dungeon
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 06:46 PM
Apr 2013

In DU3 the dungeon was eliminated and we got "Creative Speculation". The problem is that it has been decided by the hosts that "don't go too far into crazy town" in the TOS applied to CS, so all the nutters stay away from it, and only pop up out of their holes in GD like groundhogs in February.
 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
20. Gahahaha
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 06:47 PM
Apr 2013

A more beautiful description of CS I cannot imagine. Now, if they would shitcan the crazy gunners...

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
25. Pictures convey the narrow gap between the adjacent buildings.
Sat Apr 27, 2013, 10:27 AM
Apr 2013

The 18 inch gap may not have been accessible prior to the current redevelopment and as such its hardly surprising the aircraft parts have remain unnoticed all this time.

Rosa Luxemburg

(28,627 posts)
29. How did it get in there?
Sat Apr 27, 2013, 05:53 PM
Apr 2013

Looking at the pictures of the WTC on 9/11 te plane went straight in there without any bits flying off?

Hekate

(90,202 posts)
30. This WAS one of the bits that flew off
Sat Apr 27, 2013, 09:26 PM
Apr 2013

Good Lord. Pieces of everything were flying all over the city with the speed of doom, and you wonder about the trajectory that got this one broken piece of plane into a narrow alleyway? Could have bounced around quite a lot.

William Seger

(10,742 posts)
31. This is near Murray & Church where an engine was found
Sat Apr 27, 2013, 09:47 PM
Apr 2013

This video shows several large parts ejected in that direction:

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
33. good clear vid, yes it clearly shows several large parts ejected in that direction.
Sun Apr 28, 2013, 01:10 AM
Apr 2013

The city must have missed cleaning that tiny space between buildings.

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