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…
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.
Newark’s runway 29 is commonly used for landings, but it’s not terribly long, at 6,725 feet in length. That’s not problematically short, but it also means that pilots are trying to make sure they don’t land too far down the runway. Furthermore, with the New Jersey Turnpike right there, it makes for some dramatic approaches.
A great solo travel tip spotted this week on One Mile at a Time.
