Newark’s Runway 29 approach end features a displaced threshold, or start of usable runway surface area, to provide buffer from the nearby turnpike.
Credit: Google Earth
The NTSB opened a formal probe into a May 3 accident in which a United Airlines Boeing 767-400 descended too low on final approach to New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport and struck a light pole and commercial vehicle before touching down. United Flight 169 was arriving on Runway 29...
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