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When you’re driving on the highway, you don’t generally expect that you’re at risk of being hit by a commercial aircraft. Yet that’s exactly what happened today…
United 767 causes damage on New Jersey Turnpike
This incident happened today (Sunday, May 3, 2026), and involves United Airlines flight UA169, operating from Venice (VCE) to Newark (EWR). Specifically, the flight was operated by a 23-year-old Boeing 767-400ER with the registration code N77066, and there were 231 people onboard, including 221 passengers and 10 crew.
At around 1:50PM local time, after a roughly 8hr30min flight, the aircraft was on short final to Newark’s runway 19. It obviously approached too low, to the point that the plane hit both light poles and even a catering truck on the New Jersey Turnpike, just past the runway perimeter…