<p>“Tower, Frontier 4345, we&#8217;re stopping on the runway. Uh, we just hit somebody&#8230; we have an engine fire.”</p>
<p>That transmission crackling over air traffic control audio Friday night after a Frontier Airlines jet struck a person on the runway during takeoff, triggering panic onboard and a fiery emergency evacuation.</p>
<p>It happened shortly after 11:15 p.m. as Frontier Flight 4345 was accelerating for departure at Denver International Airport.</p>
<p>According to officials and air traffic control audio, the aircraft hit an individual who had entered the runway area during takeoff.</p>
<p>Denver International Airport later confirmed the person had jumped the airport perimeter fence and was hit just minutes later while crossing the runway.</p>
<p>“The pedestrian is deceased, and is not believed to be an employee of the airport nor have they been identified,” the airport posted Saturday morning.</p>
<p>The person who was struck was killed. An official says the victim was at least partially pulled into one of the plane’s engines, sparking a brief fire that firefighters later extinguished.</p>
<p>Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy <a href="https://x.com/SecDuffy/status/2053106272967279068?s=20">labeled</a> the individual a &#8220;trespasser&#8221; who &#8220;deliberately scaled a perimeter fence and ran out onto a runway.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;No one should EVER trespass on an airport,&#8221; Duffy said on Saturday morning.</p>
<p>Inside the cabin, passengers reportedly began noticing smoke as pilots slammed the brakes and stopped the Airbus A321 on the runway.</p>
<p>Emergency slides were deployed and travelers evacuated directly onto the tarmac before being bused back to the terminal.<br />
The flight was carrying 224 passengers and seven crew members.</p>
<p>Airport officials now say 12 people suffered minor injuries during the evacuation, with five transported to local hospitals.</p>
<p>Moments after the impact, the crew warned air traffic control that conditions onboard were deteriorating.</p>
<p>“We&#8217;ve got smoke on the aircraft, we&#8217;re gonna evacuate on the runway,” the pilot said.</p>
<p>Denver airport officials also said investigators examined the perimeter fence after the incident and found it to be intact, raising even more questions about how the person managed to access the restricted runway area before the collision.</p>
<p>The runway remained closed Saturday morning as investigators continued processing the scene, though airport officials said they expected it to reopen within hours.</p>
<p>The National Transportation Safety Board has been notified and Frontier says it is coordinating with airport officials to determine exactly what happened.</p>
<p>Frontier called the incident “deeply saddening” in a statement released early Saturday morning.</p>
<p>The flight to Los Angeles has since been rescheduled, with most passengers later departing Denver on another Frontier aircraft.</p>

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