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Here are some charts I made comparing UAL169 to other flights making the same approach to runway 29 that day, including 3 other aircraft of the same type.
A 3D Google Earth visualization displaying the flight approach paths of numerous aircraft descending toward Newark Airport's Runway 29 over Newark Bay and the surrounding industrial landscape. Over a hundred background flights are traced in semi-transparent white lines, creating a tight funnel. Four specific Boeing 767-400 flight tracks are highlighted in bold colors: red, blue, green, and orange. The red track represents the UAL169 incident flight. A close-up, zoomed-in view of the altitude approach chart focusing on the final 0.4 nautical miles before the Runway 29 threshold. A vertical dashed line marks the exact location of the New Jersey Turnpike (I-95) at roughly 0.11 nautical miles out. Large colored callout circles indicate the precise crossing altitudes of the four highlighted flights over the highway: UAL1173 crossed at 107 feet (orange), UAL509 at 86 feet (green), UAL121 at 73 feet (blue), and the UAL169 incident flight crossed at a significantly lower altitude of just 54 feet (red), placing it near the bottom edge of all 116 recorded tracks for that day. A data chart titled "KEWR RWY 29 — all arrivals 2026-05-03 (116 other tracks in gray, 4 B764s highlighted)." The graph plots Altitude in feet (MSL) on the vertical axis against the Distance from the Runway 29 threshold in nautical miles on the horizontal axis. While 116 baseline arrivals are shown as faint gray lines tightly clustered along a standard 3-degree glideslope, four specific United Airlines flights are highlighted: UAL509 (green), UAL121 (blue), UAL1173 (orange), and the UAL169 incident flight (red). The red line visibly sags below most of the pack and the standard glideslope line as it approaches within 1.0 nautical miles of the runway.
June 6, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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#Planefence ICAO: AA93C9
Flt: UAL509 #UNITEDAIRLINES #DEN - #SFO
First seen: 2026-07-21 16:34:37 EDT
Min Alt: 22000 ft MSL
Min Dist: 2.6 mi
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July 21, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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#ICAO: #AA6B7E Owner: #UNITED AIRLINES Flt: #UAL509 #N77006 #B772 #FCO-EWR Time: 2025-11-30 16:19:41 EST Min Alt: 21700 ft Min Dist: 8.6 nm (170° S) #Squawk: 2420 Loudness: -1 dB #dev #adsb #planefence by kx1t -•sdr-e•airplanes•flightaware•faa
November 30, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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#ICAO: #AA6C50 Owner: #UNITED AIRLINES Flt: #UAL509 #N77066 #B764 #FCO-EWR Time: 2025-10-18 16:17:14 EDT Min Alt: 23975 ft Min Dist: 8.7 km (178° S) #Squawk: 0752 Loudness: -1 dB #dev #adsb #planefence by kx1t -•sdr-e•airplanes•flightaware•faa
October 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Saint John - Aircraft within 15km: Flight UAL509 at 36000 feet, Flight DAL67 at 38000 feet #SaintJohn #Aircraft
Flight path near Saint John
June 13, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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Saint John - Aircraft within 15km: Flight UAL509 at 34000 feet #SaintJohn #Aircraft
Flight path near Saint John
May 24, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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Saint John - Aircraft within 15km: Flight PSC950 at 7125 feet, Flight UAL509 at 38000 feet #SaintJohn #Aircraft
Flight path near Saint John
November 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Saint John - Aircraft within 15km: Flight PSC950 at 4400 feet, Flight UAL509 at 38000 feet #SaintJohn #Aircraft
Flight path near Saint John
November 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Saint John - Aircraft within 15km: Flight UAL509 at 34000 feet, Flight CFOCI at 3275 feet #SaintJohn #Aircraft
Flight path near Saint John
September 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Saint John - Aircraft within 15km: Flight UAL423 at 38000 feet, Flight UAL509 at 34000 feet #SaintJohn #Aircraft
Flight path near Saint John
August 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Saint John - Aircraft within 15km: Flight UAL509 at 36000 feet #SaintJohn #Aircraft
Flight path near Saint John
August 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Saint John - Aircraft within 15km: Flight UAL509 at 32000 feet #SaintJohn #Aircraft
Flight path near Saint John
August 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Saint John - Aircraft within 15km: Flight JZA45 at 14475 feet, Flight UAL509 at 32000 feet #SaintJohn #Aircraft
April 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Saint John - Aircraft within 15km: Flight UAL509 at 34000 feet #SaintJohn #Aircraft
April 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Saint John - Aircraft within 15km: Flight UAL509 at 34000 feet #SaintJohn #Aircraft
April 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Saint John - Aircraft within 15km: Flight POE206 at 32000 feet, Flight UAL509 at 30000 feet #SaintJohn #Aircraft
April 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM