New Jersey Turnpike plane-truck incident investigated by NTSB
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Updated · Fox Baltimore · May 3
New Jersey Turnpike plane-truck incident investigated by NTSB
14 articles · Updated · Fox Baltimore · May 3
The FAA said a United Airlines Boeing 767 from Venice hit a light pole near Newark Liberty around 2pm Sunday before landing safely.
Dashcam video showed debris striking a Baltimore-based Schmidt Bakery truck headed to an H&S Bakery depot in New Jersey, leaving the driver with minor injuries from broken glass.
Earlier reports described the object as a wheel; the latest account identifies a light-pole strike during approach, and federal investigators are now examining what happened.
Was this a one-in-a-million accident, or a warning sign of a systemic crisis in airline maintenance?
What is being done to prevent the next falling aircraft part from causing a catastrophe on the ground?