United Airlines flight landing at Newark Airport hits light pole, truck on New Jersey Turnpike ⁠1%

By Roni Jacobson⁠63%

5/3/2026, 7:55:25 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 1 faulty reasoning type, including Biased Writer Voice, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 15.7% saturation with 38 hits. Analysis detected 38 faulty-reasoning hits from 242 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 7.9% and a BS Rank of ⁠1% (21,663 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 99.00% of the article peer group.

A United Airlines flight hit a light pole and a truck on the New Jersey Turnpike as it was coming in for a landing at Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday afternoon, sending the truck driver to the hospital with minor injuries, authorities said. 
Despite the collision, the aircraft en route from Italy landed safely, and none of the 221 passengers or 10 crew members onboard were injured, a spokesperson for the airline said. 
Wild dashcam footage from the truck, a tractor-trailer carrying baked goods, shows the interior of the cab in the moments before and after the collision, as the driver appears to notice the rapidly descending plane just before impact. 
“The driver experienced a commercial plane's tires landing on the tractor or brushing the top of the tractor,” said Chuck Paterakis, vice president of transportation for the bakery company that owns the truck. 
The truck was en route to deliver bread to the airport when it was grazed by the plane. 
Boardley sustained cuts from broken glass to his arm and forearm but did not suffer serious injuries, Paterakis told ABC7. 
The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the incident. 
United Airlines is conducting its own investigation into what happened, a spokesperson said. 
Normal operations at the airport resumed shortly after the impact. 
The flight, UA169, was arriving from Italy. 
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242 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker22%attributed speech189writer words
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Writer's voice • 15 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 44 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 30 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 38 words • 100.0% coverageChuck Paterakis • 33 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 0.0% coverageChuck Paterakis • 20 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Chuck Paterakis

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53 attributed words100% of attributed speech20% writer coverage
0%12.5%25.0%Biased Writer Voice-20.1 ptsWriter: 20.1%Chuck Paterakis: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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