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Authorities say particular person jumped fence at Denver Worldwide Airport in Colorado earlier than being struck.

An individual has died after leaping an airport perimeter fence within the US state of Colorado and being struck by a Frontier Airways airplane, in keeping with authorities.

Denver Worldwide Airport mentioned the weird incident occurred late Friday, after the unidentified particular person gained entry to the tarmac.

It mentioned the “pedestrian jumped the perimeter fence and was hit simply two minutes later whereas crossing the runway”.

A short engine hearth adopted the collision, which was put out by emergency responders, in keeping with the airport.

It mentioned that 12 of the 231 folks on board suffered minor accidents, with 5 hospitalised.

The airport mentioned investigators had examined the fenceline the place the person entered and “discovered it to be intact”.

It added that the struck particular person “isn’t believed to be an worker of the airport”.

“We’re extraordinarily saddened by this incident and categorical our sympathies to these concerned,” the airport mentioned.

Each native authorities and the Nationwide Transportation Security Board (NTSB) had been investigating the incident.

The Frontier Airways flight had been sure for Los Angeles Worldwide Airport.

Airport security within the US got here below renewed scrutiny earlier this yr amid a extended shutdown of the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS), which briefly left each Transportation Safety Brokers (TSA) and air visitors controllers working with out pay.

Whereas cases of individuals being killed on airport tarmacs are uncommon, Friday’s incident got here a day after a Delta worker was killed after an airport automobile struck an airbridge at Orlando Worldwide Airport.

In March, two pilots had been killed after an Air Canada Categorical airplane crashed right into a fire-rescue automobile at LaGuardia Airport in New York.

About 225,000 folks journey by means of Denver Worldwide Airport a day.