A delivery driver was just cruising down a Jersey highway, minding his own business, when the unthinkable happened.
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According to CBS News, the jet came in too low and struck a light pole, as well as this guy's delivery truck.
An investigation is underway after a United Airlines plane struck a light pole and a truck on the New Jersey Turnpike as it was coming in for a landing at Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday afternoon, officials said ...
Dash cam footage from the truck shows the moment it is struck by Flight UA169, a Boeing 767 that originated in Venice, Italy, with 221 passengers and 10 crew members on board.
A frame-by-frame review of the footage shows what appears to be the wheel of the plane outside the driver's window.
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If he had been a split-second slower or faster he may have taken a direct hit to the skull.
Fortunately, the driver survived.
The truck was traveling to Smith's Bakery depot in Newark and was about to exit the turnpike when it was hit, according to Chuck Paterakis, senior vice president of transportation and logistics and co-principal at Baltimore-based H&S Bakery. One of the plane's landing gear tires went through the truck's window and windshield, Paterakis told CBS Baltimore.
The driver of the tractor-trailer, identified by Paterakis as Warren Boardley, was taken to the hospital with minor injuries and was later released, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said. Paterakis said he was treated for injuries resulting from glass in his arm and hand.
The FAA and United are both investigating this accident.
This was not the usual landing approach for United Flight 169. The daily Venice flight typically lands on Newark's longer runways, but because of windy conditions on Sunday, the plane was vectored into Runway 29, the shortest of the three runways at Newark.
The two runways at Newark this flight would typically use are 11,000 feet long and 9,999 feet long, while Runway 29 is just 6,725 feet. The recommended minimum runway distance for a 767-400 is 6000+ feet, so the landing was not unsafe, but it had a smaller margin of error than usual. Runway 29 also has the least buffer between it and the freeways that ring Newark Liberty Airport.
Look at how low these planes get to the turnpike! 👇
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