Overview
- Frontier Flight 4345, which began its takeoff Friday at 11:19 p.m. local time, hit a person on Runway 17L and aborted as an engine caught fire.
- Airport officials said the person scaled a perimeter fence about two minutes earlier, was not an airport employee, and has not been identified.
- Crew reported smoke in the cabin, ordered an on-runway slide evacuation, and firefighters quickly put out the engine fire.
- Officials said 12 passengers suffered minor injuries and five were taken to hospitals after the evacuation from the Airbus A321 carrying 224 passengers and seven crew.
- NTSB, FAA, TSA, and Denver Police launched investigations, and the airport said Runway 17L was closed while the scene was examined and the fence line—found intact—was inspected.