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Dramatic video shows moment Frontier Airlines flight hits trespasser on runway ⁠92%

5/9/2026, 11:38:58 PM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Anecdotal, Appeal to Emotion, and Availability Heuristic, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 58.3% saturation with 252 hits. Analysis detected 1,892 faulty-reasoning hits from 432 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 86.5% and a BS Rank of ⁠92% (1,498 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 91.10% of the video peer group.

This dramatic video appearing to capture the moment a Frontier Airlines flight hit a trespasser on the runway as it was about to take off for Los Angeles. I heard like a loud boom. 
People started screaming. The collision happening last night just after 11:00 p.m. Frontier flight 4345 was on the runway at Denver International in the process of taking off when according to the airport a pedestrian jumped the perimeter fence and was hit just 2 minutes later while crossing the runway. 
We just hit somebody. We have an engine fire. According to the airline smoke was reported in the cabin and the pilots aborted takeoff. There does appear to be human remains on the runway. Pilots deploying emergency slides to evacuate the plane. Stay low. Jump. 
Videos from on board showing the chaotic aftermath passengers sliding down. People were just crying and grabbing on their loved ones and hugging their loved ones. 
ones. The Airbus A321 was carrying 224 passengers and seven crew members. 12 people reporting minor injuries and five people were transported to local hospitals. It's unclear how this person made it through but this is what the perimeter looks like. 
perimeter looks like. A fence with barbed wire and still more than half a mile away from the nearest runway. To have them walk out onto a runway it's exceedingly rare. It happens in some countries more frequently but not here in the US. 
Back in 2020 a man managed to walk on the wing of a passenger jet and in 2024 authorities found a passenger dead inside a plane engine in Salt Lake City after he breached an emergency exit onto the airfield. While the remaining passengers finally made it to LAX on a new Frontier flight tonight the affected runway now back in operation as 
Transportation Secretary Buttigieg warns no one should ever trespass on an airport. 
>> I mean it's just bonkers. I don't know why would anybody would actually do that. 
And Liz Kreutz joins live from Denver International Airport. Liz any updates on the injured passengers? 
Yeah Jose, officials say that four of the five passengers hospitalized have been released. We don't know the condition of that fifth person. 
Authorities have also not released the identity of that trespasser or said anything at this point about a potential motive. Jose. 
We thank you for watching and remember stay updated on breaking news and top stories on the NBC News app 
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Confirmation Bias
0%
Anchoring Bias
2.5%
Availability Heuristic
43.8%
Representativeness Heuristic
10.2%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
27.1%
Framing Effect
28%
Loss Aversion
2.8%
Status Quo Bias
4.6%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
9.5%
Negativity Bias
58.3%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
9.5%
Actor-Observer Bias
10.4%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
0%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
18.3%
Primacy Effect
0%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
18.3%
False Dilemma
14.6%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
19.7%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
44.4%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
11.6%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
24.3%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
48.4%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
21.1%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
3.7%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
0%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
0%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
6.9%

432 words analyzed.

Analysis

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