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Person dies after being hit by Frontier Airlines plane at US airport
A person who jumped a fence and was on a runway at Denver International Airport was struck and killed by a Frontier Airlines plane during take-off, airport authorities said. The collision sparked an engine fire and forced passengers to evacuate.The plane, en route from Denver to Los Angeles International Airport, “reported striking a pedestrian during takeoff at DEN at approximately 11:19 p.m. on Friday”, according to a post on the airport’s official social media account.A spokesman for the airport said the person, who jumped a perimeter fence, has died. They said the unidentified person was hit two minutes after entering the airport. The person is not believed to be an airport employee.“We’re stopping on the runway,” the pilot tells the control tower according to the site ATC.com. “We just hit somebody. We have an engine fire.”The pilot tells the air traffic controller they have “231 souls” on board and that an “individual was walking across the runway”.A Frontier Airlines plane sits outside the carrier’s technical operations centre north of Denver International Airport on Saturday. Photo: APThe air traffic controller responds that they are “rolling the trucks now” before the pilot tells the tower they “have smoke in the aircraft. We are going to evacuate on the runway.”
One dead in US after being struck by taking off Frontier Airlines plane
Authorities say individual jumped fence at Denver International Airport in Colorado before being struck.A person has died after jumping an airport perimeter fence in the US state of Colorado and being struck by a Frontier Airlines plane, according to authorities.Denver International Airport said the unusual incident occurred late Friday, after the unidentified individual gained access to the tarmac.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Retired NASCAR driver among seven killed in North Carolina plane crashlist 2 of 3Plane crash kills prominent Indian politician Ajit Pawarlist 3 of 3Bolivian military plane carrying banknotes crashes near capital, killing 20end of listIt said the “pedestrian jumped the perimeter fence and was hit just two minutes later while crossing the runway”.A brief engine fire followed the collision, which was put out by emergency responders, according to the airport.It said that 12 of the 231 people on board suffered minor injuries, with five hospitalised.The airport said investigators had examined the fenceline where the individual entered and “found it to be intact”.It added that the struck individual “is not believed to be an employee of the airport”.“We are extremely saddened by this incident and express our sympathies to those involved,” the airport said.Both local authorities and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) were investigating the incident.The Frontier Airlines flight had been bound for Los Angeles International Airport.Airport safety in the US came under renewed scrutiny earlier this year amid a prolonged shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which temporarily left both Transportation Security Agents (TSA) and air traffic controllers working without pay.While instances of people being killed on airport tarmacs are rare, Friday’s incident came a day after a Delta employee was killed after an airport vehicle struck an airbridge at Orlando International Airport.In March, two pilots were killed after an Air Canada Express plane crashed into a fire-rescue vehicle at LaGuardia Airport in New York.About 225,000 people travel through Denver International Airport a day.
Pedestrian killed after being struck by Frontier Airlines plane taking ...
A Frontier Airlines plane hit and killed a pedestrian on the runway of the Denver International Airport during takeoff, airport authorities said, sparking an engine fire and forcing passengers to ...
Person struck and killed by Frontier plane during takeoff in Denver ...
A Frontier Airlines passenger heard a thud and saw the plane's wing on fire after it struck a person on a runway at Denver International Airport late Friday.
