The moment a plane hit a truck while coming in to land at Newark Airport

This is the moment a plane hit a truck while coming into land at a US airport on Sunday - but miraculously only the truck driver came away with any injuries.

The United Airlines flight from Venice, Italy landed safely at New Jersey’s Newark Airport carrying 221 passengers and 10 crew despite clipping the vehicle on the New Jersey turnpike.

In dashboard camera footage from the truck which has been circulated widely on social media, the sound of a low-flying plane can be heard, before glass and other debris can be seen flying following the impact.

The truck’s driver, identified as Warren Boardley, managed to pull over and call his employer, before being treated in hospital for injuries to his arm and hand, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

The driver's employers told CBS News that one of the plane's tyres appeared to have gone through one of the truck's windows and windscreen.

The Port Authority Police Department confirmed that Flight UA169 caused damage to “a tractor trailer traveling south on the turnpike”, with the impact coming from a landing tire and the underside of the plane.

The Boeing 767 aircraft also clipped a light pole, which in turn struck a Jeep.

Incredibly, the plane was able to land safely around 2pm local time and taxied to the gate normally, according to an airport spokesperson.

Boardley’s truck was loaded with bread products he was taking to a depot at the Newark airport when the collision occurred.

Planes flying to the airport’s main runways typically sail low over multiple lanes of traffic on the turnpike, with the runway just past the edge of the highway.

United Airlines said in a statement it would "conduct a rigorous flight safety investigation into the incident and our crew has been removed from service as part of this process", and that their maintenance team was evaluating the damage to the plane.

New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill says she is "grateful the aircraft landed safely, and all passengers and crew are unharmed".

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has sent an investigator to the airport and
directed United Airlines to provide the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder.

After inspecting the runway for debris, operations at the airport promptly resumed as normal.

The incident comes shortly after an Air Canada jet collided with a fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia airport, killing two pilots and injuring more than 40 other people.