United 767 strikes pole and truck during Newark landing; NTSB investigates

On a Sunday afternoon in New Jersey, the boundary between sky and earth collapsed in an unexpected way — a United Airlines Boeing 767 descending toward Newark Liberty Airport struck a light pole and a passing tractor-trailer on the New Jersey Turnpike below, injuring the truck's driver with glass fragments before the plane landed safely with all aboard unharmed. The incident, involving Flight 169 arriving from Venice with 231 people, has prompted a formal NTSB investigation into how an aircraft came to share airspace with highway traffic. At its heart, the inquiry asks a question as old as avi