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A radar system monitoring Denver International Airport’s eastern fenceline triggered an alarm minutes before a man scaled the 8-foot fence, ran onto a runway and was hit and killed by a Frontier Airlines plane about to take off, authorities said Tuesday.
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The operator responding to the alarm late Friday night initially only saw a herd of deer outside the fence, not the trespasser, identified as Michael Mott, 41, possibly because of some ditches nearby, airport CEO Philip A. Washington said. But two minutes after Mott quickly climbed the fence, about 2 miles from the airport’s terminal, he was hit by the plane.
Mott’s death was determined to be a suicide.
The pilots of the Frontier flight aborted the takeoff after the impact, which caused an engine fire on the plane, which was carrying 231 people. Twelve people reported minor injuries. Five of them were taken to a hospital for treatment, and only one remained at a hospital Tuesday morning, Washington said.
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Other people have gotten over the fences at the airport before but were all apprehended “very, very quickly,” Washington said. He could not immediately say how many people have previously scaled the 36 miles of fencing at Denver’s sprawling airport, which he said is the second-largest in the world by size.
This is a developing story that will be updated.