A wheel of a United Airlines jet carrying 231 passengers and crew struck a highway lamppost and truck as it approached landing on Sunday, causing a major disaster. new jersey.
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials said the Boeing 767 landed safely at Newark Liberty International Airport after arriving from Venice, Italy, and the agency will investigate the incident.
“As a United Airlines aircraft approached the runway, the landing tires and the underside of the aircraft collided with a pole and a tractor-trailer,” according to a preliminary investigation by New Jersey State Police.
“The pole then struck a Jeep that was also traveling on the highway,” state police said.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said in a statement that no one on the plane was injured and the driver of the delivery truck suffered minor injuries and was taken to a hospital and released.
At around 2 p.m. local time on Sunday, United Airlines Flight 169 was carrying 221 passengers and 10 crew members when an accident occurred on a section of road near the airport runway.
There were “no injuries” to the H&S Bakery truck, but “the wheel of the commercial aircraft struck the driver’s window,” said Chuck Paterakis, the company’s senior vice president, who added that the “truck driver suffered a minor laceration during the incident.”
Patrakis also told ABC that everyone involved in the incident was extremely lucky “because things could have been the opposite of what happened, and a little help from God tonight went a long way for everyone on the plane, including the driver.”
United Airlines said in a statement that it plans to “conduct a rigorous flight safety investigation into this incident and as part of this process, our crew has been suspended.”
