{"id":622982,"date":"2026-05-04T14:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/622982\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T14:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:01:13","slug":"crazy-video-captures-moment-plane-landing-at-newark-strikes-bakery-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/622982\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy video captures moment plane landing at Newark strikes bakery truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wild dashcam video shows the nightmarish moment a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/03\/us-news\/united-plane-strikes-light-pole-tractor-trailer-while-landing-at-newark-airport-officials\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United Airlines plane struck a bakery truck<\/a> on the New Jersey Turnpike while coming in to land at Newark Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Footage inside the truck shows the driver, who works for the Baltimore-based H&amp;S Bakery, looking happy and relaxed while driving along the Turnpike Sunday afternoon when the terrifying saga unfolded.<\/p>\n<p>He had been belting out a tune just as the whistling sound of incoming United Airlines Flight 169 could be heard overhead.<\/p>\n<p>A bakery truck driver looks after he hears a plane approaching before it hits his truck. H&amp;S Family of Bakeries<\/p>\n<p>The bakery truck driver was cruising and singing before his truck was hit by a plane trying to land. H&amp;S Family of Bakeries<\/p>\n<p>The confused driver glanced up quickly as one of the jet\u2019s wheels made impact with the truck\u2019s window \u2014 sending glass flying.<\/p>\n<p>Miraculously, the driver, who was not identified, only suffered small cuts as a result of the harrowing ordeal and was treated in a local hospital, KATV reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, that everybody on that plane, everybody and the driver, God was looking after them, there\u2019s no doubt,\u201d said Chuck Paterakis, co-principal at H&amp;S Bakery.<\/p>\n<p>The plane landing at Newark after it hit a truck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we did that scenario again, I don\u2019t know if anybody could\u2019ve survived that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Boeing aircraft, which had embarked from Venice, Italy, went on to land safely on Runway 29, which runs perpendicular to the highway.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Incoming planes typically fly over the busy Turnpike at a low altitude \u2014 just feet above passing cars \u2014 before touching down.<\/p>\n<p>None of the 221 passengers or 10 crew members on the flight were injured, the airline said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wild dashcam video shows the nightmarish moment a United Airlines plane struck a bakery truck on the New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[19648,23,9097,5871,1997,107996,107993,3,21,19,22,20,25,194,24],"class_list":["post-622982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-airplanes","tag-america","tag-baltimore","tag-metro","tag-new-jersey","tag-newark","tag-newark-airport","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}