Part is from type of jet used Sept. 11

Part is from type of jet used Sept. 11

NEW YORK

A rusted piece of airplane landing gear discovered wedged between a mosque and an apartment building and believed to be from one of the hijacked planes that destroyed the nearby World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, has been confirmed as coming from the type of Boeing jet used in the attacks.

Police said Saturday that detectives had been in contact with officials at Chicago-based Boeing Co. who confirmed the wreckage was from a Boeing 767. Police have said the landing gear had a clearly visible Boeing identification number.

The American Airlines and United Airlines planes hijacked by Islamic extremists in 2001 were Boeing 767s. Boeing spokesman John Dern said he could not confirm whether the ID matched the American Airlines plane or the United Airlines plane.

N. Korea charges American detainee

PYONGYANG, North Korea

North Korea announced Saturday that an American detained for nearly six months is being tried in the Supreme Court on charges of plotting to overthrow the government, a crime that could draw the death penalty if he is convicted.

The case involving Kenneth Bae, who has been in North Korean custody since early November, further complicates already fraught relations between Pyongyang and Washington after weeks of heightened rhetoric and tensions.

Man whose flag flew at Iwo Jima dies at 90

LOS ANGELES

Alan Wood never claimed to be a hero, but he did play a supporting role in one of World War II’s most stirring moments.

It was at Iwo Jima on Feb. 23, 1945. Straining into the wind, five Marines and a Navy corpsman planted the Stars and Stripes on the rocky peak of Mount Suribachi. As the flag unfurled, Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal captured what may have been the war’s most iconic image, a shot that inspired monuments and made the Iwo Jima flag-raisers instantly famous.

Wood, a 22-year-old Navy officer, wasn’t among them. But it was Wood who provided the flag.

Wood died April 18 at his Sierra Madre home. He was 90 and had congestive heart failure, his son, Steven Wood, said.

Breyer has surgery

WASHINGTON

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is in a Washington hospital recovering from shoulder-replacement surgery after a bicycle accident.

Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg says the 74-year-old Breyer is expected to make a full recovery after the operation Saturday.

Breyer injured his right shoulder in a fall Friday near the Korean War Veterans Memorial.

6 arrested in collapse

SAVAR, Bangladesh

Police in Bangladesh took six people into custody in the collapse of a shoddily constructed building that killed at least 348 people, as rescue workers acknowledged Saturday that voices of survivors are getting weaker after four days of being pinned under the increasingly unstable rubble.

Still, in a boost for the rescuers, 29 survivors were pulled out Saturday, said army spokesman Shahinul Islam.

Most of the victims were crushed by massive blocks of concrete and mortar falling on them when the eight-story structure came down Wednesday morning. It was the worst tragedy to hit Bangladesh’s massive garment industry and focused attention on the poor working conditions of the employees who toil for $38 a month to produce clothing for top international brands.

Combined dispatches