Video shows passenger jet fatally strike person on Denver airport runway

Video released Sunday by airport officials shows the moment a Frontier passenger jet struck a person on a Denver International Airport runway.

Video released Sunday by airport officials shows the moment a Frontier passenger jet struck a person on a Denver International Airport runway.

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The black-and-white security video shows a figure approaching a runway and starting to cross it, seemingly at walking pace, when the aircraft streaks into view. The narrow-body Airbus A321 sweeps in from the left as the person vanishes and one of the plane’s engines catches fire.

The collision happened at 11:19 p.m. Friday local time as the Frontier aircraft appeared to be moving rapidly down the runway en route to takeoff for a scheduled flight to Los Angeles International Airport, Denver International Airport said.