Passengers disembark after Frontier Airlines plane hits and kills pedestrian at Denver airport

Footage obtained by The Associated Press on Saturday showed passengers evacuating an aircraft by inflatable emergency slides following an accident at Denver International Airport.

An air traffic control audio recording has captured the horrifying moment that a Frontier Airlines plane fatally struck a person who breached a perimeter fence at Denver International Airport Friday night.

“We’re stopping on the runway. Uh, we just hit somebody… we have an engine fire,” the pilot of Frontier Flight 4345 said in the recording, released by ATC.com.

About 40 seconds later, the pilot reported smoke in the aircraft and said they would evacuate passengers onto the runway, which was carried out successfully using an inflatable slide. ---More...

The intense conversation that took place between the pilot of a Frontier Airlines jet and the air traffic control tower after the airplane struck and killed a person walking on the runway last night has been released!

How could this happen? pic.twitter.com/IIM3ZYVdiP

— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince)May 9, 2026

The intense conversation that took place between the pilot of a Frontier Airlines jet and the air traffic control tower after the airplane struck and killed a person walking on the runway last night has been released!

How could this happen?

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