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Breaking overnight at Denver International Airport where Frontier Airlines reports one of its planes struck a person on the runway during takeoff.
>> Maline Rivera out of DC with the latest on what happened over at DIA. Morning Maddie.
>> Hi. Good morning, guys. Yeah, stunning incident here. There are a few details we're working to gather, including who this person was, what they were doing on the runway, what injuries they sustained, and whether they survived.
Frontier Airlines says flight 4345 was taking off for Los Angeles from Denver when it hit a pedestrian on the runway around 11:20 p.m. local time. In air traffic control recording, the pilot can be heard reporting the incident and saying there was an engine fire. Smoke was reported in the cabin, forcing the crew to begin an evacuation via slides.
Airport officials say the Denver Fire Department quickly put out that fire and emergency crews bust the passengers back to the terminal.
Frontier Airlines saying in part, "The Airbus A321 was carrying 224 passengers and seven crew members.
We are investigating this incident and gathering more information in coordination with the airport and other safety authorities. We are deeply saddened by this event." Officials say they have notified the NTSB, adding that the runway 17L will remain closed while an investigation is being done.
Guys, an investigation is being done. Guys, back to you.
>> Thank you, Maddie. Let's bring in former FAA safety team representative and pilot.
He's also an aviation analyst, Kyle Bailey. Kyle, what are your thoughts on this incident and and what what can you gather from the little bit of information we have um from in public right now?
>> Good morning. So it seems like the Airbus was accelerating at runway 17 left. The fact that there was an individual on that runway uh means that most likely at this early hour I would probably assume it was a trespasser on the airport because these big airports have really uh tremendous safety protocols in place uh if there were construction workers uh on the airport property working. So again, in this early hour, I'm I'm kind of leaning towards a trespasser on the airport property,
>> right? And Kyle, so for our viewers, walk us through are there FAA regulations about uh people being on the flight line? Like obviously we don't know what happened, but the big question is what was this person doing at that spot?
>> Yeah. I mean, if it was a tax- way or ramp, I would say yes, possibly. Maybe it was a ground employee moving or servicing the airplane. The fact it's on the actual active runway, an individual out there pretty much would stick out like a sore thumb. Uh because normally there is nobody in the vicinity of an active runway at all. Um unless it would be a trespasser u on the airport. Um even we could probably even rule out that there was somebody, you know, let's just say someone decided to sit inside of that engine on the ground. The fact that the pilot is reporting he struck an individual means that that air that that individual probably was in fact on the airport property as a trespasser, I would assume.
>> Yeah, Kyle, listen, that airport is pretty far uh in an isolated area. I've flown in and out of DI from Denver probably about 200 times. And so I'm just figuring it would be fairly difficult to get actually that far to the eastern half of that particular facility unless you're talking about someone who was a trespasser. And I say that because I know they run rounds of security all and around the uh the runways throughout the day and night.
Isn't that right?
>> Yeah, that is right. If if you don't if you do not have a badge, you're confronted. And a lot of these big airports like especially like New York, LaGuardia, uh Kennedy, they have s sophisticated systems on the airport perimeter. That's right. Literally that will pick up any trespassers, but Denver airport is a really big airport that sits on a really large uh piece of property. I initially thought, you know, could it possibly be a deer on the runway or something like that? But from that audio conversation, uh the pilot is is quite clear that he hit a pedestrian.
>> Yeah, I was worried about that, too, because you know, there are lots of uh wildlife out there, too. We're talking about cattle and deer as well. So, I was thinking that possible.
>> Have you ever seen anything like this happen? Has anything like this happened before? And if it has, is it a suicide situation that somebody would walk onto a runway like that or somebody who's just disoriented? I mean, I can't imagine how that could happen, especially understanding the level of security around the perimeter just to get inside.
>> Yeah, it's typically a trespasser. And I remember years back an incident at Newark airport where somebody actually wandered off the New Jersey Turnpike and I I don't know if this individual was on drugs or anything like that, but pretty much wandered AC onto the airport property and actually crossed the active runway at airport many years ago.
Similar situation. Uh but often in these cases uh you know unfortunately you know people do do it you know as a means of
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