Police yesterday hauled away the 255-pound hunk of World Trade Center plane wreckage that was recently discovered in a tight alley behind the planned Ground Zero mosque.
Once the wing-flap support was removed, the city Medical Examiner's Office began sifting through the soil beneath it in search of human remains.
None were found yesterday or in previous days, officials said.
"It's a pretty eerie feeling, knowing that we're sitting here 11 years later removing that part,'' said NYPD Deputy Chief William Aubry, commanding officer of the Forensic Investigation division. "I think we all felt emotion. Some of these ESU personnel were here 11 years ago trying to save lives.''
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EERIE: Police handle a recently discovered piece of debris yesterday believed to be part of a 9/11 plane.
The twisted part was discovered last week, wedged between an apartment building and the planned mosque at 51 Park Place.
It was a delicate operation.
One dozen Emergency Service Unit officers used a pulley system to gingerly hoist the 5-foot-long chunk of metal — torn from one of the two hijacked Boeing 767s that struck the towers — over a three-story wall.
The 5-foot-by-3-foot rusted part was then lowered onto a dolly and wheeled out through the basement of the planned mosque. "It's a piece of history and we tried to preserve it as best we could,'' Aubry said.
"We tried not to cut it, not to change it in any fashion so that we could get it out the same way we discovered it. And we were able to do that. It's going to the NYPD property clerk at Erie Basin, where it will be stored and [the National Transportation Safety Board] or a museum could possibly [take it]."
A crowd gathered to watch as the part was put on an ESU truck and taken to a Brooklyn police facility for storage.
The mood for both cops and onlookers was somber during the two-hour operation.
"This is surreal,'' said Dominique George, 25, of Fort Greene, a data technician. "That [9/11] seems so long ago and for that to be here all this time, it brings back memories.''
Video technician Mike Picciotto, from Bayonne, has visited the site every day since the plane part was found.
"It feels like closure somewhat. This is like a burial, the way I was waiting for them to bring it out, like it was a casket," said Picciotto, 36, who works downtown.
"I've been here since day one. This is hallowed ground."
The discovery recalls a similar find in October 2006.
That's when Con Ed unearthed human bone fragments when utility workers opened a manhole on the World Trade Center's western edge that had been paved over in 2002.
Right after that find, officials mapped out an expanded plan for search operations at hundreds of locations in the vicinity of the site, including manholes, sewer lines and roofs.
"We developed a plan and protocol to ensure that any areas at and in the vicinity of the site are searched,'' mayoral spokeswoman Samantha Levine said yesterday. "We have been following that protocol, and there are still two locations we won't access for a year or so.''
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