Dashcam video shows the shocking moment a landing United Airlines plane hit a bakery truck on the New Jersey Turnpike while descending at Newark Airport.
Footage inside the truck shows the driver, who works for the Baltimore-based H&S Bakery, looking calm while driving along the Turnpike on Sunday afternoon, May 3, when the terrifying incident unfolded.
He had been singing just as the whistling sound of incoming United Airlines Flight 169 could be heard overhead.
The confused driver looked up quickly as one of the jet’s wheels hit the truck’s window, sending glass flying.
Miraculously, the driver, who was not identified, only suffered small cuts and was treated in a local hospital, KATV reported.
“To me, that everybody on that plane, everybody and the driver, God was looking after them, there’s no doubt,” said Chuck Paterakis, co-principal at H&S Bakery.
“If we did that scenario again, I don’t know if anybody could’ve survived that.”
The Boeing aircraft, which had embarked from Venice, Italy, went on to land safely on Runway 29, which runs perpendicular to the highway.
Incoming planes typically fly over the busy Turnpike at a low altitude — just feet above passing cars — before touching down.
None of the 221 passengers or 10 crew members on the flight were injured, the airline said.
See the video below.
JUST IN: Baltimore bakery truck struck by a United Airlines plane coming in for a landing at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey.
According to local reports, the plane was a United Airlines Boeing 767-400.
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