Terrifying Footage Shows Frontier Passengers Flee After Jet Strikes Person on Runway
The Daily Beast • • business
Key Points:
- A Frontier Airlines plane struck a trespasser on the runway at Denver International Airport on May 8, causing an engine fire and smoke inside the cabin.
- Passengers rushed to evacuate despite instructions to leave luggage behind, using emergency slides to escape as smoke filled the aircraft.
- Security footage shows the trespasser crossing the runway shortly before being hit by the plane, which was traveling about 139 mph at the time.
- All 224 passengers and seven crew members were safely evacuated, while the trespasser’s identity remains unknown.
- Passengers described the incident as terrifying, with one calling it the "scariest experience" of their life.