UA169 strike investigated by FAA and NTSB – what went wrong on final approach?

UA169 strike: Wheel hits truck on highway, plane lands safely. NTSB probes low altitude. A United Airlines plane hit a light pole and a truck on the New Jersey Turnpike while landing at Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday afternoon. This event is now known as the UA169 strike. Dash cam footage from the truck shows when Flight UA169, a Boeing 767 that had come from Venice, Italy, and was carrying 221 passengers and 10 crew members, hit it. A frame-by-frame look at the video shows what looks like the plane’s wheel outside the driver’s window.

The New Jersey State Police said that an initial investigation showed that a tire from the landing gear and “the underside of the plane” hit both a light pole and a tractor-trailer. State police also said that the pole hit a Jeep that was driving on the turnpike. According to United Airlines, the plane landed safely, taxied to the gate normally, and no passengers or crew were hurt.

The UA169 strike from the truck driver’s perspective – a tire through the windshield

Chuck Paterakis, senior vice president of transportation and logistics and co-principal at Baltimore-based H&S Bakery, said that the truck was on its way to Smith’s Bakery depot in Newark and was about to leave the turnpike when the UA169 strike happened. Paterakis told CBS Baltimore that one of the plane’s landing gear tires went through the truck’s window and windshield. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says that the driver, who Paterakis named as Warren Boardley, was taken to the hospital with minor injuries and then released.

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Paterakis said that Boardley got medical help for cuts on his arm and hand from glass. The Federal Aviation Administration said it is looking into what happened. United Airlines said, “United flight 169 hit a light pole as it was coming in for a landing at Newark International Airport.” The plane landed safely, taxied to the gate without any problems, and no passengers or crew members were hurt. Our maintenance team is looking at the damage to the plane and figuring out how it happened.

What caused the UA169 strike? Runway 29, wind, and a “difficult approach”

The Port Authority said the plane hit the pole on its way to Runway 29. The pole and the tractor-trailer that was going south on the turnpike were both damaged. Airport workers looked for debris on the runway, and things got back to normal quickly. An investigation has begun by the National Transportation Safety Board.

Kris Van Cleave, a senior transportation correspondent for CBS News, asked some important questions: “Why was the plane too low? Was wind a factor in this? Did the people in the cockpit lose track of what was going on? United Flight 169 didn’t usually land this way. The daily flight from Venice usually lands on Newark’s longer runways, which are 11,000 feet and 9,999 feet long. But on Sunday, because of the wind, the plane was directed to Runway 29, which is only 6,725 feet long, making it Newark’s shortest runway.

The recommended minimum runway distance for a 767-400 is over 6,000 feet. This means that the landing was not unsafe, but there was less room for error. Runway 29 is also the closest to the freeways that go around Newark Liberty Airport. Robert Sumwalt, a former NTSB chair and retired 737 captain, told Van Cleave, “As a former airline pilot, I would consider this runway to be relatively short, and so I suspect that the pilots wanted to make sure that they were not landing long.”

Sumwalt also called landing on that runway a “difficult approach” because it isn’t straight in—pilots have to circle to line up—and it doesn’t have some of the landing technology that other runways do. Mikie Sherrill, the governor of New Jersey, wrote on social media, “I’m glad the plane landed safely and that all the passengers and crew are okay.” People who came to Newark on Sunday night were shocked.

Miranda Lee from Tenafly said, “I’m so glad he’s okay because that looks terrible.” “It is scary,” Sam Immanuel said. Yes, it’s definitely worrying. Peter Marguiles of Wyckoff, who flies a lot, said, “I still think you have a better chance of getting hit by lightning than getting hurt on a plane.” But that’s a lot. Right now, there’s more than I want to see.