May 3 (UPI) -- A United Airlines jet struck a light pole while approaching Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday afternoon, damaging a vehicle traveling on the New Jersey Turnpike, officials said.
United Airlines Flight 169 from Venice, Italy, was on final approach to Newark's Runway 29 at about 2 p.m. EDT when "the aircraft struck an object over the southbound New Jersey Turnpike, causing damage to a light post and tractor-trailer traveling south on the NJ Turnpike," the Port Authority Police Department told UPI in an emailed statement.
The driver of the tractor-trailer was taken to the hospital with minor injuries and has been released, the police department said, adding that "minor damage to the aircraft was observed."
United told UPI that the aircraft, a Boeing 767-400 with 221 passengers and 10 crew onboard, "landed safely, taxied to the gate normally and no passengers or crew were injured."
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