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Wild dashcam video shows the nightmarish moment a United Airlines plane struck a bakery truck on the New Jersey Turnpike while coming in to land at Newark Airport.
Footage inside the truck shows the driver, who works for the Baltimore-based H&S Bakery, looking happy and relaxed while driving along the turnpike Sunday afternoon when the terrifying saga unfolded.
He had been belting out a tune just as the whistling sound of the incoming United Airlines Flight 169 could be heard overhead.
The confused driver glanced up quickly as one of the jet’s wheels made impact with the truck’s window — sending glass flying.
Miraculously, the driver, who was not identified, only suffered small cuts as a result of the harrowing ordeal and was treated in a local hospital, KATV reported.
“To me, that everybody on that plane, everybody and the driver, God was looking after them, there’s no doubt,” said Chuck Paterakis, co-principal at H&S Bakery.
“If we did that scenario again, I don’t know if anybody could’ve survived that.”
The Boeing aircraft, which had embarked from Venice, Italy, went on to land safely on Runway 29, which runs perpendicular to the highway.
Incoming planes typically fly over the busy turnpike at a low altitude — just feet above passing cars — before touching down.
None of the 221 passengers or 10 crew members on the flight were injured, the airline said.
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