{"id":625843,"date":"2026-05-06T00:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/625843\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T00:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:40:13","slug":"new-video-shows-united-plane-clipping-truck-at-newark-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/625843\/","title":{"rendered":"New video shows United plane clipping truck at Newark airport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newly-released camera footage gives the clearest view yet of the packed United jet that walloped a bakery truck<\/a> while landing at Newark Liberty International Airport, injuring the driver.<\/p>\n

The footage shows United 169 coming in low over the New Jersey Turnpike, where its landing gear appears to crash into the top of a tractor-trailer, according to the video shared on X.<\/a><\/p>\n

The blow appears to have shoved the trailer into a concrete barrier; the plane also struck a lamp pole.<\/p>\n

United 169 moments before hitting a tractor-trailer on the New Jersey Turnpike<\/p>\n

Footage from a dash cam inside the cab shows the hapless driver rocking as if in an earthquake.<\/p>\n

The driver survived the terrifying ordeal with minimal injuries, and none of the 231 people aboard the plane was hurt.<\/p>\n

United 169 had been attempting a visual landing on Runway 29 \u2014 a notoriously challenging approach<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The maneuver \u2014 a \u201cvisual\u201d approach in which pilots guide the plane by sight \u2014 is infamous for its short runway, nonstandard guidance lights, cross-traffic with other runways, crosswinds, and other tricky features, said Eric Wydra, director of the University of Oklahoma School of Aviation.<\/p>\n

View from inside the truck, which belongs to H&S Bakery in Baltimore. H&S Family of Bakeries<\/p>\n

The truck dash cam rattles after the impact H&S Family of Bakeries<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand why at Newark they don\u2019t use that runway a lot,\u201d he told The Post.<\/p>\n

The Post obtained dozens of complaints from pilots vexed by the notorious \u201cStadium Visual Rwy 29,\u201d as it is known in aviation circles.<\/p>\n

The plane also hit a light pole on the highway<\/p>\n

United 169 continues its approach to Runway 69, Newark Airport\u2019s shortest runway AP<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were \u2026 listening to the Air Traffic Control chatter and also trying to follow the aircraft in front of us and find the runway, which was very difficult to see with all the lights coming from that direction,\u201d wrote one pilot on the FAA\u2019s anonymous Aviation Safety Reporting System.<\/p>\n

It has a slim margin for error and can be extremely difficult to course-correct if a plane undershoots an initial 70-degree turn, which appears to be what United 169 did.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you undershoot it, then you\u2019re out there in the Wild West,\u201d said Robert Joslin, the former FAA\u2019s chief scientific and technical advisor.<\/p>\n

Both Wydra and Joslin insisted the approach is safe \u2014 recent aerial fender-bender notwithstanding \u2014 as long as both pilot and air traffic control follow protocols to the letter.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a difficult approach, but you have one of two choices: either move that runway or move the turnpike, which isn\u2019t going to happen,\u201d Wydra said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newly-released camera footage gives the clearest view yet of the packed United jet that walloped a bakery truck…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4324,19648,28,1997,33715,194],"class_list":["post-625843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-airlines","tag-airplanes","tag-business","tag-new-jersey","tag-plane-crashes","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625843","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=625843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}