00:00Holy, oh my goodness.
00:02That thing hit that.
00:09Oh my goodness.
00:13Holy, oh my goodness.
00:16A Boeing 767 carrying 231 people clipped a lamppost and a truck on a highway while coming in to land.
00:26The plane made it down safely.
00:28The truck driver went to the hospital, and the whole thing was caught on camera.
00:33Sunday afternoon, around 2 p.m., United Airlines Flight 169 is on final approach into Newark Liberty International Airport,
00:42fresh in from Venice, Italy.
00:45221 passengers, 10 crew members, a routine landing at one of America's busiest airports.
00:51Except it wasn't routine at all.
00:54As the Boeing 767 descended toward the runway, its landing gear drifted low enough to clip a lamppost on a
01:02highway running near the airport perimeter.
01:05Then, almost simultaneously, the wheel of the aircraft struck a tractor-trailer truck that was driving underneath the flight path.
01:14The pole then swung and hit a jeep traveling the same road.
01:18Three vehicles, one airplane wheel, in the span of seconds.
01:22The truck belonged to H&S Bakery, a delivery vehicle going about its Sunday route.
01:28Chuck Padarakis, a senior vice president at the company, described what happened to the driver in stark terms.
01:35The wheel of the commercial plane, he said, crashed directly into the driver's window.
01:41The truck itself was largely unscathed, but the driver suffered cuts from the impact and was rushed to hospital.
01:47He was treated and released.
01:50231 people on a plane, a delivery driver on a highway, all of them, by the narrowest of margins, walked
01:57away.
01:58The FAA confirmed the incident and has launched a formal investigation.
02:02New Jersey State Police described it plainly in their preliminary report.
02:06A landing tire and the underside of the plane collided with a pole and a tractor-trailer on approach.
02:13United Airlines has pulled the entire crew from service, standard procedure while a rigorous flight safety investigation gets underway.
02:21Boeing has not yet commented.
02:23Newark has already been in the headlines in 2026 for the wrong reasons.
02:27Air traffic control staffing issues, radar outages, ground stops.
02:32It's one of the most congested and operationally stressed airports in the United States.
02:38231 people landed safely.
02:41A delivery driver went home from the hospital.
02:43And by every account, this should have been so much worse.
02:47The video tells the story better than any report can.
02:51Watch it and decide for yourself how close Sunday came to being something nobody forgets.
02:58Oh my goodness.
03:00Nothing hit that.
03:01Did you see all that wind?
03:03Oh my goodness.
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