Footage shows moments before Frontier Airlines jet struck person on Denver airport runway

Newly released surveillance footage shows the harrowing infinitesimal a Frontier Airlines pitchy struck and killed an idiosyncratic who was loitering connected the runway astatine Denver International Airport precocious Friday night. 

Thermal imaging connected the clip obtained by KDVR shows the unidentified idiosyncratic standard a perimeter obstruction earlier they walked straight into the airplane's path.

"The trespasser connected the runway was past struck by Frontier Airlines Flight 4345 during takeoff astatine precocious speed. The aviator stopped takeoff procedures immediately," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wrote successful a station connected X.

The incidental occurred astir 11:19 p.m. arsenic the level was attempting instrumentality disconnected and caused a little motor occurrence that was subsequently extinguished by authorities, the airdrome said successful an X post.

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Thermal imaging shows an unidentified idiosyncratic scaling a perimeter obstruction earlier walking into the way of a Frontier airplane astatine Denver International Airport connected May 8, 2026. (KDVR)

Radio postulation recordings obtained by KDVR uncover the chilling statement from archetypal responders successful the aftermath of the collision. 

"Runway 17L is closed," a archetypal responder reportedly said. "I bash person limbs connected the runway. I judge the craft struck an individual."

The idiosyncratic was "at slightest partially consumed" by 1 of the plane's engines, ABC News reported.

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Thermal imaging shows an unidentified idiosyncratic scaling a perimeter obstruction and walking into the way of a Frontier airplane astatine Denver International Airport connected May 8, 2026. (KDVR)

Officials said 12 radical were wounded and 5 were transported to a section infirmary with injuries from the crash. Authorities person not yet revealed the individuality of the idiosyncratic struck by the aircraft. 

"As acold arsenic information protocols, our information teams and Denver Police regularly patrol the perimeter of the airport. The idiosyncratic scaled the barbed-wire obstruction and was deed wrong 2 minutes," a Denver Airport spokesperson told Fox News Digital. 

Denver International Airport aboriginal posted an update to X adding it "has examined the fenceline and recovered it to beryllium intact."

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A Frontier Airlines Airbus A320 neo plane, owned by the Bank of Utah Trustee, taxis to a gross astatine Denver International Airport (DEN) connected March 23, 2026 successful Denver, Colorado. (Al Drago/Getty Images)

"We are highly saddened by this incidental and explicit our sympathies to those involved," the connection concluded. 

The incidental is nether probe by the NTSB, FAA and Frontier Airlines. 

Fox News Digital's Jesse Watson and Robert McGreevy contributed to this report.