United Airlines Plane Hits Truck on Turnpike and Light Pole While Landing In Newark

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The plane managed to land safely and none of the 200 plus passengers or crew were injured. The driver of the delivery truck was taken to the hospital with minor injuries, then released. The pole fell on a car and injured that driver. That could have been a major catastrophe. Of course the FAA and NTSB are investigating. It seems like everyday for the past several weeks there have been scary near misses. Of course there was the recent fatal collision of a plane and fire truck at LaGuardia that killed two pilots.
Here is the video report:
https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/...nes-plane-hits-bakery-truck-landing-132628890
 
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I can only guess that the pilot flying the plane “did not” follow the ILS.
Had he followed the ILS, the plane would not have been low enough to strike the light pole or the bread truck.
 
Someone is going to have to write some very big checks. 😉🤭😂

I was wondering if this might have been the pilot’s first time landing at that airport or runway. 🤔

Thankful that everyone came out of it alive.
 
oldman said:
I can only guess that the pilot flying the plane “did not” follow the ILS.
Had he followed the ILS, the plane would not have been low enough to strike the light pole or the bread truck.
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The ILS is the Instrument Landing System. If you have driven past an airport and seen small towers with lights on them and antennas (on some), that is the ILS. Once the pilot connects via radio waves and frequency to the Localizer and the Glide Slope, the ILS will direct the plane to the runway and keep the plane laterally and vertically in line with the runway as the pilot uses a (normally) 3 degrees descent approach to touchdown on the runway. It was a great invention that had started back in 1938 at Pittsburgh International Airport during a blinding snowstorm. Before that beacons and beams were used to help aid the landing.

There have been many great inventions for the airline industry over the years. I used to tell my rookie pilots that we are living in a golden age where airliners (old term, but I’m an old pilot) have the safest planes we ever flew. Today, pilots are flying planes that have a backup system for all of the critical functions of their plane. Even some backup systems have their own backup system.

For example; all passengers jets have two radios, in case one goes out, but some planes have three radios. Our planes have TCAS to prevent my plane from running into another plane. Sort of like my GMC truck with Crash Alert. When the alarm goes off, the ATC directs one plane to climb 1000 feet and the other plane to descend 1000 feet. Once the planes have gone past one another, they may return to their previous flight level (FL) with ATC permission. “Come fly the friendly skies of United.” Remember that motto?

The ILS———-

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WhatInThe said:
Thought I saw where the driver was ok and his cargo(bread) was in pretty good shape all factors being.

Just saying wasn't there a plane or flight route called 'The Clipper'
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Pan Am had a “ship in the sky” they nicknamed Clipper. In fact, they gad a fleet of planes called “Clipper.”
 
robin416 said:
I wonder when/if we'll hear about whether they were using the ILS or not.
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Id say there's a 50% chance of finding that out, after waiting a few weeks, and you'll have to search the internet for it. Also will probably have to wait a few weeks to even find out the identities of the pilots, length of service, etc, if you care, and you'll have to search for it. Won't be on the news.
 
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