{"id":633101,"date":"2026-05-09T15:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T15:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/633101\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T15:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T15:56:09","slug":"pedestrian-dies-in-us-after-being-hit-by-frontier-airlines-plane-at-denver-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/633101\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dies in US after being hit by Frontier Airlines plane at Denver airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A Frontier Airlines plane hit and killed a pedestrian on the runway of the Denver International Airport during take-off, airport authorities said, sparking an engine fire and forcing passengers to evacuate.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The plane, on route from Denver to Los Angeles International Airport, \u201creported striking a pedestrian during take-off at DEN at approximately 11.19pm on Friday,\u201d the airport\u2019s official X account wrote.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A spokesperson for the airport said the pedestrian, who jumped a perimeter fence, died.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They said the unidentified person was hit two minutes after entering the airport. The person is not believed to be an airport employee.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe\u2019re stopping on the runway,\u201d the pilot tells the control tower according to the site ATC.com. \u201cWe just hit somebody. We have an engine fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The pilot tells the air traffic controller they have \u201c231 souls\u201d on board and that an \u201cindividual was walking across the runway\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A Frontier Airlines jet takes off from Denver. File photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/31d6c787-3de1-476c-905e-24e7654cee9b_02872e18.jpg\" title=\"A Frontier Airlines jet takes off from Denver. File photo: AP\"\/>A Frontier Airlines jet takes off from Denver. File photo: AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Frontier Airlines plane hit and killed a pedestrian on the runway of the Denver International Airport during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[273525,23,1840,120900,18762,54905,120570,18763,33717,3,11899,54318,36353,22210,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-633101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-airbus-a321","tag-america","tag-denver","tag-denver-international-airport","tag-engine-fire","tag-evacuate","tag-frontier-airlines","tag-los-angeles-international-airport","tag-national-transportation-safety-board","tag-news","tag-pedestrian","tag-runway","tag-smoke","tag-take-off","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}