N.Y.P.D. The jetliner wreckage found last week near ground zero was part of a flap mechanism, not a landing gear as initially reported by the police. This sketch shows the position on a Boeing 767 of the found part.Plane wreckage found last week behind a building in Lower Manhattan and apparently deposited there after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, is part of a wing flap â€" not part of the landing gear â€" from a jumbo jet of the same model as those that crashed into the World Trade Center, Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman, said on Monday.
The police had initially described the damaged machinery, wedged into a narrow alley off 51 Park Place, as a piece of the landing gear of a Boeing 767.
N.Y.P.D. The jet part found wedged between two buildings last week.But a technician from Boeing told detectives on Sunday that the part was in fact the support structure for a mechanism connected to one wing’s trailing edge flap.
“It is believed to be from one of the two aircraft destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001,†Mr. Browne said in a statement, “but it could not be determined which one.â€
The police kept the area roped off as a crime scene on Monday, with a mobile command truck from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner parked out front.
Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office, said a process of sifting the area around the plane part for human remains would begin on Tuesday morning.
After that is completed, the police said, the part would be kept by the Police Department’s property clerk until a decision is reached on where it should be permanently housed.
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