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Landing gear from World Trade Center plane found

One World Trade Center stands where the destroyed original World Trade Center once stood in New York City on April 30, 2012. One World Trade Center officially surpassed the height of the Empire State Building today to become New York City's tallest building. UPI/John Angelillo
One World Trade Center stands where the destroyed original World Trade Center once stood in New York City on April 30, 2012. One World Trade Center officially surpassed the height of the Empire State Building today to become New York City's tallest building. UPI/John Angelillo | License Photo

NEW YORK, April 26 (UPI) -- What is believed part of the landing gear from one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center in New York turned up Friday near Ground Zero, police said.

The piece of one of the planes that hit the twin towers Sept. 11, 2001, was found at the site of a proposed Islamic community center just blocks from the trade center site, the New York Post and Daily News reported.

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Surveyors found the piece wedged between two buildings. The area has been cordoned off and police are treating it as a crime scene.

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