{"id":424607,"date":"2026-05-09T19:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/frontier-jet-hits-pedestrian-runway-takeoff-engine-fire\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T19:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:46:10","slug":"pedestrian-on-the-runway-frontier-jet-hits-person-during-takeoff-suffers-engine-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=424607","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Pedestrian On The Runway&#8221;: Frontier Jet Hits Person During Takeoff, Suffers Engine Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255967\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/frontier-airlines\/\"  >Frontier Airlines<\/a><\/span> jet departing from <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"144284\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/denver-international-airport\/\"  >Denver International Airport<\/a><\/span> (DEN) on Friday night underwent an emergency evacuation after striking a person on the runway during its takeoff roll. The collision with the individual, who was reportedly wandering across DEN&#8217;s Runway 17L, sparked an engine fire, forcing the jet to abort its takeoff as smoke entered the cabin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smoke entered the cabin and the crew declared an engine fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[676,396,476,762,2586,413,3960],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accident","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-denver-international-airport","category-engine-fire","category-frontier-airlines","category-runway"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=424607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424608,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424607\/revisions\/424608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}