{"id":220294,"date":"2026-05-05T04:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T04:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220294\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T04:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T04:30:26","slug":"united-airlines-flight-hits-pole-and-truck-on-approach-to-newark-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220294\/","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines flight hits pole and truck on approach to Newark airport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\n <\/p>\n

New video shows the harrowing moment a United Airlines international flight<\/a> barreled into a light pole and tractor trailer during its approach at Newark Liberty International Airport over the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Flight 169, traveling from Venice, Italy, to New Jersey<\/a>, struck the pole and the Schmidt Bakery truck during its descent at around 2 p.m. on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All 221 passengers were unharmed, and the plane landed safely following the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Footage from inside the bakery truck, which was traveling from Baltimore to a company depot in New Jersey, shows its driver traveling down the New Jersey Turnpike before the plane\u2019s landing gear and underside struck the vehicle, sending it flying down the roadway.<\/p>\n

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Surveillance footage shows a United Airlines plane clipping a tractor trailer during its approach at Newark Liberty International Airport on May 3, 2026. (Obtained by WBFF)<\/p>\n

Miraculously, the driver was transported to a local hospital with only minor injuries from broken glass, according to Chuck Paterakis, senior vice president of Transportation<\/a> and Logistics and co-principal at the company.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Upon its final approach into Newark International Airport, United flight 169\u00a0came into contact with\u00a0a light pole,” United Airlines said in a statement. “The\u00a0aircraft\u00a0landed safely, taxied to the gate\u00a0normally\u00a0and no passengers or crew were injured.”<\/p>\n

The airline said maintenance teams are inspecting the aircraft for possible damage and conducting a full safety review. The crew members on board have been temporarily removed from service.<\/p>\n

“The crash remains under investigation, and no additional information is available,” New Jersey State Police<\/a> told FOX Business.<\/p>\n

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Surveillance footage shows a United Airlines plane clipping a tractor trailer during its approach at Newark Liberty International Airport on May 3, 2026. (Obtained by WBFF)<\/p>\n

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)<\/a> confirmed the aircraft struck the pole at roughly 2 p.m. local time and said it is investigating.<\/p>\n

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)<\/a> is also looking into the incident and said an investigator is expected to arrive in Newark on Monday.<\/p>\n

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“The agency has directed United Airlines to secure and provide both the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder to support the investigation. A preliminary report outlining the facts and circumstances of the event is expected within 30 days,” NTSB told FOX Business in an email.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital’s Sophia Compton and Jesse Watson contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

Julia Bonavita is a U.S. Writer for Fox News Digital and a Fox Flight Team drone pilot. You can follow her at @juliabonavita13<\/a> on all platforms and send story tips to julia.bonavita@fox.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New video shows the harrowing moment a United Airlines international…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[10997,3347,1066,9,24,63,134,136,135,608,618],"class_list":["post-220294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-airlines","tag-airports","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-transportation","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}