NTSB: United 767 Captain's Speed, Altitude Errors Led to Newark Landing Accident

In the final minutes of an international flight from Italy, a United Airlines captain brought a Boeing 767 into Newark too slowly and too low, clipping a light pole and sending ripples of damage onto the highway below. Federal investigators have now formalized what the bent metal already suggested: the approach deviated from the precise parameters that exist to keep aircraft and the world beneath them safe. The incident joins a longer human story about the weight of procedure — how the rules of flight are not bureaucratic formality but the architecture of survival, and what happens when that a