Bakery truck driver struck by United jet thought he would be killed, father says

The operator of a bakery motortruck that got clipped by a United Airlines level portion driving connected the New Jersey Turnpike believed helium would beryllium decapitated moments earlier the collision, his begetter revealed successful a Tuesday quality conference.

Warren Boardly Jr. was driving a motortruck for Baltimore's H&S Bakery connected the New Jersey Turnpike connected Sunday erstwhile United Flight 169 dipped down and scraped his 18-wheeler with its landing gear.

"He said helium seen a flash and it made him duck and enactment up his hands," his father, Warren Boardly Sr., said Tuesday.

Dashcam video signaling successful Boardly Jr.'s car shows the moments earlier and during the collision. The video shows him hitting his caput connected the apical of his motortruck during the impact, which Boardly Sr. and Boardly's lawyer J. Wyndal Gordon accidental led to an acute caput injury.

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Surveillance footage shows a United Airlines level clipping a tractor trailer during its attack astatine Newark Liberty International Airport connected May 3, 2026. (Obtained by WBFF)

"He described fear, full fearfulness that helium wouldn’t locomotion distant from it, helium thought that helium would beryllium decapitated. That’s what helium thought," Boardly Sr. said Tuesday.

Boardly Jr. is inactive recovering astatine location from his injuries. "He's doing the champion helium tin nether the circumstances. He has a batch of pain, a batch of affectional distress that's conscionable not gonna heal overnight," Gordon told the quality conference.

"His intelligence and affectional presumption is... you know, it's coming. We person to get him looked astatine due to the fact that that was a traumatic experience. I've ne'er known anyone to locomotion distant from thing similar that. So, you know, helium feels the aforesaid way. He's struggling with that portion of that," Boardly Sr. added.

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"Today could person been a time wherever we are mourning his loss," Boardly Sr. besides said.

"Had helium been going 1 mile per hr faster, oregon 1 mile per hr slower, it would person much than apt killed him," Boardly Sr. said, adding that watching the video "shook maine to my core."

Surveillance footage shows the infinitesimal a United Airlines level clipped a tractor trailer during its attack astatine Newark Liberty International Airport connected Sunday, May 3, 2026. (Obtained by WBFF)

Gordon explained that portion the Boardlys are unfastened to imaginable litigation, close present they're focused connected uncovering retired what happened.

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"We expect that there's immoderate negligence determination due to the fact that planes conscionable don't driblet retired of the entity and they conscionable don't ordinarily and routinely deed 18-wheelers traveling on the New Jersey Turnpike, Gordon said.

Surveillance footage shows a United Airlines level clipping a tractor trailer during its attack astatine Newark Liberty International Airport connected May 3, 2026. (Obtained by WBFF)

"We're not conscionable going to record a suit without having each the facts oregon having capable facts that we judge that we tin reasonably beryllium our case. So, successful presumption of litigation, we're obscurity adjacent there. We're successful the information uncovering process close present conscionable to get capable accusation to if we needed to record a lawsuit," Gordon concluded.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the Federal Aviation Administration are conducting investigations into the incident.

"The bureau has directed United Airlines to unafraid and supply some the cockpit dependable recorder and formation information recorder to enactment the investigation. A preliminary study outlining the facts and circumstances of the lawsuit is expected wrong 30 days," the NTSB antecedently told FOX Business.

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"Upon its last attack into Newark International Airport, United formation 169 came into interaction with a airy pole," United besides said successful a connection to FOX Business. "The aircraft landed safely, taxied to the gate normally and nary passengers oregon unit were injured."

Fox News Digital contacted the NTSB, FAA, United and J. Wyndal Gordon for further comment.