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Posted on 05/05/2026 1:03:48 PM PDT by Red Badger
New footage shows the moment a United Airlines plane collided with a light pole and a truck while landing at Newark Liberty International Airport.
The Boeing 767 was traveling at about 160 mph when it made contact.
Air traffic controllers say there was a hole in the side of the plane and damage to the tire following the incident.
The man driving the truck, Warren Boardley of Baltimore, suffered minor injuries.
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NEW VIDEOS... That plane was just inches from disaster...........
AVIATION PING!...............
Yep. Assuming tractor trailer truck, the landing gear was somewhere around 13-14 ft over they highway.
I think the tires actually brushed the top of the trailer..............................
In Hot Shots (1991) with Charlie Sheen there is a rear view mirror on the jet that says on it Objects May Be Closer Than They Appear. Not as funny when your passenger plane pilot is dodging obstacles.
DEI spells DIE
A comic whose name I forgot did a routine about old lady drivers. First, make sure to signal your intention in advance for a turn, such as when you back out of the driveway and leave it one for twenty minutes.
Said the big 1070s Chryslers and Pontiacs used to have such a large and expansive body that they could be used in an emergency for landing by a single engine plane.
Note: 1971-1976 Pontiac Grand Ville and Bonneville had lengths of 226-227 inches.
Talk about being willing to get involved.
Lucky no one deied
Definitely off the glide slope beam.
Runway 29 approach goes over the Jersey Tnpk and the runway is 6725 ft long. There was no reason and plenty of room and equipment onboard assisting to be that low crossing over the NJTP in VFR conditions. But I’ve seen other flights come in low over that road. It’s a 12 lane freeway in 4 sections there. I don’t know what the issue is. Too much reliance on unreliable visual cues and ignoring the instruments in VFR conditions?
Exactly. That pilot needs to have their license pulled. They came very close to killing everyone on board that aircraft and possibly the driver. If one of those wheels hit lower on the truck and forced an adverse yaw or wing dip, that plane could have been a fireball after impacting the ground.
We're currently in a "Coulter Window" between when the event occurred and when the authorities admit that the offender is not a white man.
Coulter's Rule is from Ann Coulter who pointed out that the longer we go without being told the race of a shooter, the less likely it is to be white men. Corollaries to Coulter's Rule apply to crimes other than shootings, and to politically inconvenient screwups caused by such things as Didn't Earn It (DEI) hiring.
This could’ve been so much worse. Thank God it wasn’t.
Trailer seems to stay in place, but the cab was wrecked and flipped.
Woman driver ?
The only time they’ll use the shorter runway 29 (east/west) is when the winds are bad enough from the west to create a crosswind hazard on the much longer north/south runways. That day the winds were gusting pretty good from the west. Gusting winds create more lift (airplane goes up), but when not gusting, less lift (airplane goes down). My bet is the crew were doing everything EXACTLY right (telemetry and radar will confirm) but a decrease in apparent airspeed due to a reduction in wind speed caused the plane to drop. The runway threshold is only about 70 feet passed the side of the highway in order to gat a bit more length on the 29 runway.
If blame is to be cast….I’ll put it on the engineers who designed a highway and a runway on top of each other.
The truck driver was not at fault in any way. The pilot? Well, my bet is that he won’t fly again. And yes, it’s a he. He chose to do an approach to the shortest runway at that airport, when he had other choices.
Pilots don’t choose the runway. It is selected for them by the traffic controller in the tower.
It’s not like Newark International is a grass strip ya know….
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