{"id":410703,"date":"2026-05-04T03:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T03:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/410703\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T03:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T03:44:08","slug":"united-airlines-jet-strikes-light-pole-and-delivery-truck-while-landing-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/410703\/","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines jet strikes light pole and delivery truck while landing in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">The Port Authority said in a statement that the plane caused \u201cdamage to a light post and a tractor trailer traveling south on the NJ Turnpike\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">The truck \u201cwas unscathed\u201d but \u201cthe wheel of the commercial plane crashed into the driver\u2019s window,\u201d according to Chuck Paterakis, a senior vice president for the company, who added \u201cthe truck driver suffered small cuts from the incident\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">United Airlines said in a statement it plans to \u201cconduct a rigorous flight safety investigation into the incident and our crew has been removed from service as part of this process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">New Jersey State Police, who responded to the highway incident, and aircraft manufacturer Boeing did not immediately respond to AFP\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Port Authority said in a statement that the plane caused \u201cdamage to a light post and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17622,2681,95,138,31143,26755,78,1019,20439,28372,30031,15028,71387,6804,111,60394,139,69,15026,23897,3117,19063,23857,9938,3040,6123],"class_list":["post-410703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-airlines","tag-airport","tag-and","tag-business","tag-delivery","tag-highway","tag-in","tag-international","tag-jersey","tag-jet","tag-lamp","tag-landing","tag-liberty","tag-light","tag-new-zealand","tag-newark","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-plane","tag-pole","tag-post","tag-strikes","tag-truck","tag-united","tag-us","tag-while"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}