United Airlines flight slams into bakery van at 250km/h in terrifying crash footage

Terrifying footage has captured the moment a passenger jet hit a truck while coming in to land and a major US airport. United Airlines Flight 169 was landing at Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday, May 3, when it struck a light pole on the adjacent New Jersey Turnpike, as previously reported by the Mirror . New footage has emerged which shows the plane also struck a bakery truck. The flight, which was arriving from Venice, Italy, was approaching Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey to land. The United Airlines Boeing 767 was travelling more than 257km per hour when it crossed over the turnpike, just outside of the airport, according to flight tracking site Flightradar24. A preliminary investigation found that a tyre from the plane’s landing gear and the underside of the plane “collided with a pole and a tractor-trailer. The pole then struck a Jeep,” New Jersey State Police spokesman SFC Charles Marchan said in a statement. “The driver of the tractor-trailer sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was transported to an area hospital.” Dashcam footage from within the bakery truck showed the driver travelling. The truck was travelling north on the turnpike to deliver bread products to a Newark airport depot when the incident occurred. The plane’s landing gear tires suddenly strike the truck, shaking the vehicle and shattering glass. Driver Warren Boardley was taken to the hospital with minor injuries and was later released. Nobody on the flight was injured. The pilots and air traffic control did not appear to be aware of the incident, an Australian news site reported. The aircraft was instructed to taxi to the gate while other aircrafts continued to land on the runway. Air traffic controllers reported a “hole in the side of the aeroplane” to an operations vehicle preparing to inspect the runway about half an hour after the landing. A spokesperson for United Airlines said its maintenance team was evaluating damage to the aircraft and promised “a rigorous flight safety investigation into the incident”. The plane’s crew has been removed from service as part of the investigation.