Fuselage Fragment
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This airplane fuselage skin fragment is made of aluminum and is a silver color overall with yellow paint on the reverse side. This was a piece of one of the hijacked airplanes that crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Because most of the fuselage melted in the fires that brought down the towers, the only parts of the aircraft that could be recovered were pieces that were sheared off on impact. The yellow-green paint on the fragment indicates that the FBI didn't need that piece as evidence anymore and was therefore released to the Smithsonian.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: recovered
content: United States: New York, Manhattan, World Trade Center
topic: label: associated subject
content: September 11 Terrorist Attacks
label: related event
content: Attack on the World Trade Center
label: related event
content: September 11th Attacks
setName: label: See more items in
content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, 9/11
label: See more items in
content: September 11
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0057.04
label: accession number
content: 2002.0057
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0057.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fragment, Airplane
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 18.5 cm x 43.5 cm x 44 cm; 7 5/16 in x 17 1/8 in x 17 5/16 in