A part of the plane that hit WTC2 went thru the building, and can be seen in the photographic record hurtling, smoking, to the streets below.

Likely, it was this jet engine core (combustion chambers & gearbox that remain after the shroud and turbine blades are sheared off in a crash) that landed at the intersection of Church & Murray in Manhattan.


Largest image of this engine can be found here


Status as evidence is good; engine has been photographed many times and in at least one subsequent view is covered with dust apparently from the Twin Tower collapses.

The question at hand is whether or not this is really an engine from a 767, the type of plane known to be used for Flight 175. If you look closely you will see injector ports around the combustor chamber following an alternating 6-stud/3-stud pattern, highlighted in the foto below, which should be quite distinctive.



Is this the corresponding part of a CF-6, the engine employed in a Boeing 767, shown below?



Other useful references to jet engines:



• There is a JT8D engine on display at the Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago)
• The Air & Space Museum in Washington DC has a CF-6.
• Is this engine a CFM-56, not used on 767s?
  
• More on this engine
  
• Rense also identifies the engine that hit the Pentagon as a JT8D.
• From various posters to an airline forum, until the official version 'corrected' their evaluation of the South Tower hit as having been caused by a 737.

Since no official investigation questioned the origin of this engine core, its determination remains an action item for independent efforts.

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Wrong Engine, Wrong Place

Identified by an FAA licensed A & P mechanic as a CF-6, from a Boeing 767, this core was photographed at Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, where much WTC rubble was taken. It remains a curiosity rather than evidence despite high resolution images generally available.

If this really is an engine from a Boeing 767, why do we call it the wrong engine? Because the degree of corrosion on the surface of the metal and the deformations of the fairly delicate peripheral tubular structures are more indicative of having been kicked around in an aviation graveyard for some 3 to 10 years than violently traversing the interior of a steel-framed building!

HOMEWORK EXPERIMENT See if you can find a photograph, on the Web or anywhere else, of this engine core being pulled out of The Pile at Ground Zero.

Since no official investigation questioned the origin of this engine core, its determination remains an action item for independent efforts.

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Another undocumented engine core

On view at the Caen, France 9-11 Memorial Exhibition, (June 6 to the end of 2008), from the New York State Museum collection, this core looks more representative of a violent crash. The accompanying blurb is a vague handwave however, indicating no real effort was made to positively identify either its type nor determine where it was found on the ground: "An airplane engine compressor from one of the two flights that hit the twin towers. Although the main bodies of the aircraft disintegrated upon impact, some large pieces were thrown clear and recovered from areas surrounding the complex."

HOMEWORK EXPERIMENT See if you can find documentation that positively identifies this engine core.

Since no official investigation questioned the origin of this engine core, its determination remains an action item for independent efforts.

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