United Airlines Boeing 767 just hit a DELIVERY TRUCK on the highway

[SeaMajor7]

Nope, not that low on landing. All you'd hear is "Fifty.....forty.......thirty.......twenty...."

It sure is nice knowing so much about aviation and correctly all of this garbage posted in this thread LOL

Since the plane HIT a truck, it was below 20.
I'm not claiming to be an expert, but I am an aviation enthusiast (foamer/nerd). Take it easy, brah.

 

[odanny]

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[airplanemechanic]

Since the plane HIT a truck, it was below 20.
I'm not claiming to be an expert, but I am an aviation enthusiast (foamer/nerd). Take it easy, brah.

If the plane is on landing approach, the cockpit voice will not say "pull up". It will only say "pull up" if the aircraft is configured for normal flight (not final approach) and is in an unusually nose low attitude, or is heading for a mountain, but then it would be combined with "Terrain! Terrain!"

 

[SeaMajor7]

If the plane is on landing approach, the cockpit voice will not say "pull up". It will only say "pull up" if the aircraft is configured for normal flight (not final approach) and is in an unusually nose low attitude, or is heading for a mountain, but then it would be combined with "Terrain! Terrain!"

OK, it should have said "NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE" because it was below 20 well before the runway threshold. GEEZ.

 

[Independent thinker]

I hear the driver is okay. He's a very lucky guy.

United flight strikes light pole and tractor-trailer landing at Newark Airport

A United Airlines flight arriving from Venice made contact with a light pole while on its final approach to Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday afternoon, according to an airline statement.

www.fox5ny.com

I bet NYPD didn't get their supply of donuts that day.

 

[Stryder50]

I wonder if it ran out of gas. Or maybe decided to use regular instead of jet fuel to save a buck or two.

Jet fuel is chemically close to diesel, not regular gasoline.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Jet fuel is chemically close to diesel, not regular gasoline.

Kerosene and yes it can definitely go boom. Thankfully that did not occur.

 

[Stryder50]

As typical here the usual suspects run off wagging tongues at each other and 40+ posts into this news item/thread, no one has bothered to get actual facts and details. So here, excerpt;
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This was not the usual landing approach for United Flight 169. The daily Venice flight typically lands on Newark's longer runways, but because of windy conditions on Sunday, the plane was vectored into Runway 29, the shortest of the three runways at Newark.

The two runways at Newark this flight would typically use are 11,000 feet long and 9,999 feet long, while Runway 29 is just 6,725 feet. The recommended minimum runway distance for a 767-400 is 6000+ feet, so the landing was not unsafe, but it had a smaller margin of error than usual. Runway 29 also has the least buffer between it and the freeways that ring Newark Liberty Airport.

"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," Former NTSB Chair and retired 737 captain Robert Sumwalt told Van Cleave.

Sumwalt also characterized landing on that particular runway as a "difficult approach."

"It's not a straight-in approach. You have to come in and circle and to line up with that runway," he said, noting it also lacks some of the technology the other runways have to help with landings.
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Video shows United flight strike truck on New Jersey Turnpike before landing at Newark Liberty Airport

An investigation is underway after a United Airlines plane struck a light pole and truck on the New Jersey Turnpike as it was coming in for a landing at Newark Liberty Airport on Sunday afternoon, officials said.

www.cbsnews.com

Color highlight my doing to underscore essential details.
There are a few of us here who have actually landed airplanes and it is not the easy task many might think. There's an adage from the early days of aviation to effect: "Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing".

In this incident, coming out of a circular turn while dropping altitude and with little time and room top line up straight with the runway, the pilots were focused on getting down safely on the ground.

This is not a usual runway to land on so these pilots likely didn't know the flaws and hazards of the approach.
If anything, having a freeway and assorted poles close to the end of the runway and at near same altitude is the major blame/fault item here.

Proximity of these flight hazards means that if the pilots are aware of such, they will have to approach the end of the runway higher up than would be desired, which means you touch wheels to ground further down the length of the runway. On a runway that is barely long enough to land this size plane, they could have risked going off the end of the runway before being able to stop.

 

[Stryder50]

Kerosene and yes it can definitely go boom. Thankfully that did not occur.

Both have higher flash points than gasoline.

 

[DonGlock26]

I bet NYPD didn't get their supply of donuts that day.

The sprinkles must flow.

 

[SeaMajor7]

Here's a great breakdown of this incident.

 

[airplanemechanic]

Here's a great breakdown of this incident.

Subbed to his channel, too. LOL He's very knowledgeable. He's an airline pilot.

 

[martybegan]

I hear the driver is okay. He's a very lucky guy.

United flight strikes light pole and tractor-trailer landing at Newark Airport

A United Airlines flight arriving from Venice made contact with a light pole while on its final approach to Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday afternoon, according to an airline statement.

www.fox5ny.com

On the Grand Central parkway by LaGuardia the light poles are really short on the approach to runway 4. Luckily no trucks allowed on that stretch.

 

[airplanemechanic]

OK, it should have said "NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE" because it was below 20 well before the runway threshold. GEEZ.

You're a moron. I corrected you saying that it would say "pull up pull up" I didn't say the pilot did nothing wrong.

 

[SeaMajor7]

You're a moron. I corrected you saying that it would say "pull up pull up" I didn't say the pilot did nothing wrong.

Yes, I'm a moron.

Kidding aside, I just used "PULL UP" as something that MIGHT sound off in the cockpit. I did NOT say that inferring that I KNEW that would be the warning.
You should take that pole out of your ornery ass and cut some slack for a layman aviation enthusiast.
Damn.

 

[martybegan]

Yes, I'm a moron.

Kidding aside, I just used "PULL UP" as something that MIGHT sound off in the cockpit. I did NOT say that inferring that I KNEW that would be the warning.
You should take that pole out of your ornery ass and cut some slack for a layman aviation enthusiast.
Damn.

From my Air Disasters experience, isn't it TERRAIN TERRAIN PULL UP PULL UP

 

[SeaMajor7]

From my Air Disasters experience, isn't it TERRAIN TERRAIN PULL UP PULL UP

Hmmm, not sure, but the manic mechanic might berate you for wondering that.

 

[Dragonlady]

They will kill us all just to be politically correct.

I watched this thread start out as an accident report, and then someone suggested the pilot might be a "DEI" hire. Not that there is anything in any of the reports to indicate the race or sex of those flying the plane.

And you've just bought into it completely, and are reacting as if this is what happened, when in reality, you' don't have the first clue.

No wonder you voted for a rapist.