A United Airlines jet struck a New Jersey Turnpike light pole while approaching Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday afternoon.

A United Airlines jet struck a New Jersey Turnpike light pole while approaching Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday afternoon.

The passenger plane clipped the vehicle on the New Jersey Turnpike, narrowly avoiding "a major catastrophe," one aviation expert said.

A United flight hit a truck and a light pole on the Jersey turnpike on approach to the airport in Newark, where it landed safely and nobody was hurt.

A bakery truck was hit by a United Airlines plane as it was coming into land at Newark Airport in New Jersey. United Airlines flight 169 from Venice, Italy, struck a pole and the…