May 9, 2026
"We Just Hit Somebody" Pedestrian Struck By Plane At Denver Airport Overnight
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RSS Feed A shocking and confusing story out of Denver International Airport just before midnight. A Frontier jet had to abort its take off after accelerating and striking a pedestrian on an active runway. No word on who the person was and how and why they were crossing the runway. We have the audio between the pilot and the air traffic controller moments after the collision, when the jet’s engine caught fire.”
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00:00:02
Speaker 1: Hey that folks. It's Saturday, May ninth, and as we are getting up on this Saturday morning, another disturbing and shocking incident at an American airport. This time a plane taking off in Denver hit what's described as a pedestrian walking across the runway. With that, Welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Folks, We're gonna let you hear the audio, the air traffic control audio between the tower and the pilot as this happened. It's really disturbing stuff to listen to. But Robes, here we go again with another incident that doesn't have to do with a plane being in the air and having problems. These problems we seem to be having are on the ground.
00:00:43
Speaker 2: We have talked about this NonStop because this has been a unfortunately recurring theme.
00:00:49
Speaker 3: We just flew this week and you even.
00:00:52
Speaker 2: Said, now we gotta worry about taxing to the gate or even as we're leaving, you're looking out the window to if you really were doing this to see if you saw a vehicle or I don't even know, if we were looking for a person who is mostly a vehicle or another plane.
00:01:09
Speaker 3: That's been the concern.
00:01:10
Speaker 2: Haven't been worried about or even considered a person being an issue on the tarmac.
00:01:16
Speaker 1: So I guesses you immediately when I first heard the story when we woke up this morning, the first thought is, why would airport worker possibly be out there, because surely every day American or a citizen couldn't just walk onto the runway of an airport. There's a security question there.
00:01:39
Speaker 2: Yes, you should have a security fence, security cameras, those areas being monitored. Yeah, I would I would have thought that that was a foregone conclusion that duh, people, regular people, a pedestrian couldn't wander onto the Denver runway or tarmac.
00:01:56
Speaker 3: And certainly if it's a worker, don't they all have.
00:01:58
Speaker 2: Those bright orange or yellow vests on and they know where to go and where not to go, and certainly when it's late at night, because this happened just before midnight, after eleven pm local time there in Denver. Obviously, if you didn't have a reflective vest or some sort of very bright clothing, you would not be seen in the pitch black on a runway.
00:02:21
Speaker 1: And the other issue there arobes this person could have been wearing the most the brightest, most fluorescent lit up outfit possible. It was impossible, it sounds like for this plane to avoid hitting whatever was there because it was accelerating for takeoff. It was accelerating for takeoff. So folks, again, this is last night, many of you, most of you sleeping at this point. It was eleven twenty last night at the Denver International Airport. This was a late flight because it was just going to Los Angeles, so a short flight hour plus or so. But this was Frontier Airlines flight. Where is it here in front of me? Four three four five. I had two hundred and thirty people on board. Now roges of this recording, there's still questions about who this person was that was down there on the runway, but we can tell you that at least ABC in Los Angeles is reporting that this person has been killed. Again, this is coming to us from ABC, the local affiliate there, ABC seven in Los Angeles, saying that this person has been killed. Roes. Yes, we're waiting for some official word and confirmation. It's hard to understand how you could survive getting hit by an air bus taking off.
00:03:34
Speaker 3: Yes.
00:03:34
Speaker 2: In fact, data from the flight tracking website flight Radar twenty four said the plane i guess they can even track exactly at the moment of impact. The plane was accelerating at about one hundred and forty six miles an hour. There's absolutely no way a pedestrian could survive that kind of acceleration when it comes to being hit by, yes, a plane.
00:04:00
Speaker 1: And again you just wonder robes what this person was doing out there and that We did get a statement from the airport initially. We'll just tellt you know what they officially said. Again, this was immediately after the incident.
00:04:11
Speaker 2: Frontier flight four three four five reported striking a pedestrian during takeoff at Denver at approximately eleven nineteen pm on Friday May eight, twenty twenty six. There was a brief engine fire that was promptly extinguished by the Denver Fire Department. Emergency crews responded to the scene and bust passengers to the terminal.
00:04:34
Speaker 3: Two hundred and thirty one souls were on board.
00:04:36
Speaker 2: Emergency response and investigations are ongoing.
00:04:39
Speaker 3: The NTSP has.
00:04:40
Speaker 2: Notified Runway seventeen L will remain closed while the investigation is conducted. There are reports of real concern on board the plane, as you might imagine, because one passenger at least told a local news reporter that they saw the explosion in the engine. There was a actual explosion and then there was smoke that actually filled parts of the cabin.
00:05:05
Speaker 1: So as we were speaking, just then Rose about ABC seven to what you're saying there, what's being reported. When I saw that statement, the first thing I saw officially this morning was from the airport, And so you hear about somebody being hit, and then you hear the statement say that they had an engine fire, and your mind just goes, oh wow, oh boy. So yes, the affiliate there also is reporting that the person who was killed was at least partially sucked up into the engine. Is what we know now that would go in line with having an engine fire, smoke ending up in the cockpit. Now, they did have to evacuate everyone. We're going to let you hear this audio now. We want you to understand what you're hearing here. It goes about a minute fifteen seconds, but it's going to be clear the back and forth. You hear the pilot saying we hit someone. He knew immediately Rose that it wasn't just an object.
00:05:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's interesting to me because I'm just imagining how dark it is and then you have the runway lit obviously, so you can see the border of the runway. But even with those lights on this side, it would seem like it would be even harder to distinguish. And if you're going almost two hundred miles an hour, the fact that he could see someone, and by the way, thank god, not try to swerve, not try to hit the brakes, like I don't who knows like at that point what that must have been like for that pilot.
00:06:23
Speaker 1: You know, we hear about a boarding takeoff, and I'm sure they're trained. I'm sorry, I'm speaking out of turn here because I'm not a trained pilot. But it's not like evasive maneuvering we get taught in driving screen. You can't just hang a left, to hang a.
00:06:36
Speaker 3: Right to turn into the spin.
00:06:37
Speaker 1: Now, you can't do that. You're going, like you said, several hundred miles an hour trying to take off. So what you're gonna hear here again when you hear the reference forty three forty five, that is the number of the particular flight you're gonna hear southwest in there as well. There's other conversation going on the towers talking to other planes who also are trying to land. So that's just the setup for what you're gonna hear. But here it is the audio, the air traffic between those Frontier Airlines JET and the tower when this incident occurs.
00:07:09
Speaker 4: Yeah, PreCure forty three forty five. We're stopping on the runway. Uh there, we just hit somebody. We have an engine Fier.
00:07:14
Speaker 5: Front to forty three forty five.
00:07:16
Speaker 4: I see that towerseltlist to my nine twenty one left base for a month, this bus on.
00:07:21
Speaker 5: The runway and then fox trot and then Charlie Sheriff has fifty six twelve. Just hold your position thirty six twenty seven. Just hold your position hopefully, yes, said SUTs with a FRENCHI forty three forty five. I'm going to be rolling THEOD trucks now. You can you heal the souls on board and fuel meetings? All right?
00:07:42
Speaker 4: Forty three forty five. We have two hundred and thirty one souls on board. We have twenty one and twenty pounds of feel on board. There was an individual walking across the runway.
00:07:54
Speaker 5: Okay, we are rolling good trucks down Op seven Denver, did you copy all of this? Op seven? Running one seven left, two hundred and thirty one souls. We're rolling the trucks down cifty six twenty seven turn left on, Papa said, sor right now, you're busy as N twenty one? Are we clear to land? Once is left? One six leftful? Then I'll seven answer one seven left is closed. We've got smoke and the aircraft we're going to evacuate on the runway.
00:08:24
Speaker 1: I mean roades. I am quite frankly, I am really impressed at how calm everybody was in handling the emergency.
00:08:30
Speaker 2: I'm always impressed by pilots, by air traffic controllers, by nine one one operators. They hear some crazy stuff and lives are on the line, and we need those folks to remain cool, calm and collected. And it's so impressive when they do, because I'd be screaming.
00:08:47
Speaker 3: Oh my god, we justn't hit somebody, which is why you would never want me to be a commercial airline pilot.
00:08:52
Speaker 1: But roads, how devastating would that have to have been in that moment? How to know you just hit somebody with your plane and just you still got two hundred and thirty one other souls like you just said to take care of look. I applaud them for their professionalism in this one. The air traffic controller as well, and we were laughing. I told you'd hear it, but it sounds bizarre. There's another There are plenty of planes up there, and it's said, hey, I know you're busy, but can we land? Yes, that's interesting.
00:09:19
Speaker 2: I know this ain't a great time, but really we need to get down there now.
00:09:25
Speaker 1: So now, yes, the investigation certainly is underway. We should report. I think you might have mentioned. Minor injury was reported of a passenger at least on board, but nothing there deemed to be serious. But they're still trying to figure out who this person is, why they were on the runway, and certainly how they got their ropes. There are reports this morning, or at least the affiliate there is reporting they are going through and checking the perimeter fence to see if there are gaps, there are holes. How this person got out there?
00:09:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's so scary.
00:09:57
Speaker 2: And is there anyway somebody who was actually at the airp or would have been able to wander out some door to get through onto the tarmac.
00:10:05
Speaker 3: It's just scary.
00:10:05
Speaker 2: I'm also just imagining being on that plane and you know, you're about to take off. Everyone's a little anxious, you know, because that's take off and take Normally it's takeoff and landing, which are the two most dangerous times that you're on a plane. So everyone's kind of a little tense, holding their breath and just to have it come to a screeching halt to here's some sort of an impact. I mean, my god, that had to be scary for everybody.
00:10:30
Speaker 1: But this, of course robes add this, right, add this to the list of incidents we keep seeing at airports. I don't know robes, if we are there's more emphasis on them, there's more social media or are there more incidents? Are there more incidents of this type? But there are roes. We got a lot of them that are stacking up now that and sometimes they don't see. We hear about TSA and air traffic controller shortages. What is this though? This is not we're not saying it's either one of those things. How did somebody get out there for a stroll on an active runway.
00:11:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, there are system failures, there are some sort of security failures. There are human errors. I think that's what we're looking at right now.
00:11:16
Speaker 1: And we're going to remind about some of the recent incidents, and by recent we mean days ago, weeks ago. These things are starting to stack ups the There we continue here on this Saturday morning, waking up to another shocking incident at an American airport. One person hit, a person described Robes and all of the reporting as a pedestrian. That just seems like an odd thing to call somebody at an airport runway. We shouldn't have pedestrians. There's no such thing as a pedestrian on an active runway yet, No.
00:11:54
Speaker 2: Unless you've got a pedestrian bridge where some smaller airports they have ways to walk to jets that can't get too close and that sort of thing. We see that again. Smaller airport's Denver. I'm not sure they even have a pedestrian walkway of any kind, just.
00:12:11
Speaker 1: The name there shouldn't exist. There's some places people shouldn't be walking. There shouldn't be no such thing as a pedestrian on a damn runway. But here we are this morning, but Robes, there's been incident after incident, I guess probably the first one that comes to people's minds. It seems kind of similar to this is La Guardia. Right, plane hits a truck, two killed, and the two killed were the pilots.
00:12:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was awful.
00:12:36
Speaker 2: And then I was actually thinking about a couple of days ago in Newark where the plane clipped a delivery truck on the actual turnpike. That happened, I believe last Sunday. That was a matter of days, and he was injured.
00:12:51
Speaker 3: So you know, he's recovering at home. He's gonna be fine.
00:12:54
Speaker 2: But still, that's way too close, and frankly, that's insane you're driving on the turn.
00:13:00
Speaker 1: But we're talking about robes. To those two most recent I suppose within days of each other, we had a plane hit a delivery vehicle on the New Jersey Turnpike. And now we've had a pedestrian killed on a runway in Denver. Huh.
00:13:19
Speaker 2: Those two things should never happen, and it makes no sense how either of them did.
00:13:24
Speaker 1: But we're talking about here, robes. We're not talking about mechanical failures of we're talking about human beings.
00:13:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're not talking about bird strikes or some sort of engine failure or some sort of mechanical error.
00:13:36
Speaker 3: No, this is human error.
00:13:38
Speaker 1: And the reminder it was March the one I'm speaking of. And people remember that the plane hit the emergency truck that was out there on the runway. That was human error. The guy knew it immediately. Remember the audio from.
00:13:48
Speaker 3: The said I messed up from the.
00:13:49
Speaker 1: Air traffic that was That was human error. In April, we had an incident JFK. This is just a few weeks ago. The planes came within three hundred feet of each other. This was the one where one was veering out of its lane as it was landing. You remember that one. Yes, that was again human era. Southwest jets too close as well in April, this was in Nashville. These two had to take evasive action. Once again, this was not mechanical.
00:14:15
Speaker 2: It was actually wasn't the system on board the planes helpful in making sure that collision didn't happen because they were alerted to the fact that they were too close.
00:14:23
Speaker 1: So it seems like the I guess the technical aspects of working the human aspects are not in some of these incidents. What do you do? I don't know. Is this a strain on the system. Is this because we don't have enough air traffic control as pilots are exhausted. It just air travel right now, you almost want to stay away from it. Just the system seems strained. Spirit just went out of business, so there's more people looking for fewer seats. Kind of a thing. I just I don't know, robes. Air travel is scary as hell.
00:14:53
Speaker 3: It's unnerving, it really is.
00:14:54
Speaker 2: And when you see these incidents, the ones we just mentioned start to pile up, it really does give people pause. It does concern folks, And look right now, unfortunately, hopping in the car ain't necessarily that much better of a solution. Obviously, we know there's always incidents on the roadway, but gas prices are as high as they are. Like, it's travel in general right now is just tough. I think a lot of folks, and this is the busy travel season is about to begin. We just got through spring break and summer.
00:15:22
Speaker 3: Travel is set.
00:15:24
Speaker 2: We already have tickets and our plans, and so do so many other people. I wonder how much this causes folks to reconsider what they're doing and where they're going and how they're getting there.
00:15:34
Speaker 1: But on both fronts, I'm scared to fly and it costs too damn much to fly.
00:15:39
Speaker 4: Roll.
00:15:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a tough summer potentially, and oh yes, we're still at war. And oh yes, gas prices are four dollars and fifty five cents a gallon right now. Yeah, and oh yeah, the straight off Horn Motes is still closed. Okay, happy, happy summer traveling season, folks. Just wanted to hop on give you that it was an important update this morning. There may be more to come out throughout, but right now at least ABC in Los Angeles reporting that that person struck by that Frontier Airlines jet at Denver Airport late last night has been killed. We'll keep an eye on it. We always appreciate you spending some time with us. From my dear Amy Roboc, I'm TJ. Holmes and we'll talk to you also
Speaker 1: Hey that folks. It's Saturday, May ninth, and as we are getting up on this Saturday morning, another disturbing and shocking incident at an American airport. This time a plane taking off in Denver hit what's described as a pedestrian walking across the runway. With that, Welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Folks, We're gonna let you hear the audio, the air traffic control audio between the tower and the pilot as this happened. It's really disturbing stuff to listen to. But Robes, here we go again with another incident that doesn't have to do with a plane being in the air and having problems. These problems we seem to be having are on the ground.
00:00:43
Speaker 2: We have talked about this NonStop because this has been a unfortunately recurring theme.
00:00:49
Speaker 3: We just flew this week and you even.
00:00:52
Speaker 2: Said, now we gotta worry about taxing to the gate or even as we're leaving, you're looking out the window to if you really were doing this to see if you saw a vehicle or I don't even know, if we were looking for a person who is mostly a vehicle or another plane.
00:01:09
Speaker 3: That's been the concern.
00:01:10
Speaker 2: Haven't been worried about or even considered a person being an issue on the tarmac.
00:01:16
Speaker 1: So I guesses you immediately when I first heard the story when we woke up this morning, the first thought is, why would airport worker possibly be out there, because surely every day American or a citizen couldn't just walk onto the runway of an airport. There's a security question there.
00:01:39
Speaker 2: Yes, you should have a security fence, security cameras, those areas being monitored. Yeah, I would I would have thought that that was a foregone conclusion that duh, people, regular people, a pedestrian couldn't wander onto the Denver runway or tarmac.
00:01:56
Speaker 3: And certainly if it's a worker, don't they all have.
00:01:58
Speaker 2: Those bright orange or yellow vests on and they know where to go and where not to go, and certainly when it's late at night, because this happened just before midnight, after eleven pm local time there in Denver. Obviously, if you didn't have a reflective vest or some sort of very bright clothing, you would not be seen in the pitch black on a runway.
00:02:21
Speaker 1: And the other issue there arobes this person could have been wearing the most the brightest, most fluorescent lit up outfit possible. It was impossible, it sounds like for this plane to avoid hitting whatever was there because it was accelerating for takeoff. It was accelerating for takeoff. So folks, again, this is last night, many of you, most of you sleeping at this point. It was eleven twenty last night at the Denver International Airport. This was a late flight because it was just going to Los Angeles, so a short flight hour plus or so. But this was Frontier Airlines flight. Where is it here in front of me? Four three four five. I had two hundred and thirty people on board. Now roges of this recording, there's still questions about who this person was that was down there on the runway, but we can tell you that at least ABC in Los Angeles is reporting that this person has been killed. Again, this is coming to us from ABC, the local affiliate there, ABC seven in Los Angeles, saying that this person has been killed. Roes. Yes, we're waiting for some official word and confirmation. It's hard to understand how you could survive getting hit by an air bus taking off.
00:03:34
Speaker 3: Yes.
00:03:34
Speaker 2: In fact, data from the flight tracking website flight Radar twenty four said the plane i guess they can even track exactly at the moment of impact. The plane was accelerating at about one hundred and forty six miles an hour. There's absolutely no way a pedestrian could survive that kind of acceleration when it comes to being hit by, yes, a plane.
00:04:00
Speaker 1: And again you just wonder robes what this person was doing out there and that We did get a statement from the airport initially. We'll just tellt you know what they officially said. Again, this was immediately after the incident.
00:04:11
Speaker 2: Frontier flight four three four five reported striking a pedestrian during takeoff at Denver at approximately eleven nineteen pm on Friday May eight, twenty twenty six. There was a brief engine fire that was promptly extinguished by the Denver Fire Department. Emergency crews responded to the scene and bust passengers to the terminal.
00:04:34
Speaker 3: Two hundred and thirty one souls were on board.
00:04:36
Speaker 2: Emergency response and investigations are ongoing.
00:04:39
Speaker 3: The NTSP has.
00:04:40
Speaker 2: Notified Runway seventeen L will remain closed while the investigation is conducted. There are reports of real concern on board the plane, as you might imagine, because one passenger at least told a local news reporter that they saw the explosion in the engine. There was a actual explosion and then there was smoke that actually filled parts of the cabin.
00:05:05
Speaker 1: So as we were speaking, just then Rose about ABC seven to what you're saying there, what's being reported. When I saw that statement, the first thing I saw officially this morning was from the airport, And so you hear about somebody being hit, and then you hear the statement say that they had an engine fire, and your mind just goes, oh wow, oh boy. So yes, the affiliate there also is reporting that the person who was killed was at least partially sucked up into the engine. Is what we know now that would go in line with having an engine fire, smoke ending up in the cockpit. Now, they did have to evacuate everyone. We're going to let you hear this audio now. We want you to understand what you're hearing here. It goes about a minute fifteen seconds, but it's going to be clear the back and forth. You hear the pilot saying we hit someone. He knew immediately Rose that it wasn't just an object.
00:05:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's interesting to me because I'm just imagining how dark it is and then you have the runway lit obviously, so you can see the border of the runway. But even with those lights on this side, it would seem like it would be even harder to distinguish. And if you're going almost two hundred miles an hour, the fact that he could see someone, and by the way, thank god, not try to swerve, not try to hit the brakes, like I don't who knows like at that point what that must have been like for that pilot.
00:06:23
Speaker 1: You know, we hear about a boarding takeoff, and I'm sure they're trained. I'm sorry, I'm speaking out of turn here because I'm not a trained pilot. But it's not like evasive maneuvering we get taught in driving screen. You can't just hang a left, to hang a.
00:06:36
Speaker 3: Right to turn into the spin.
00:06:37
Speaker 1: Now, you can't do that. You're going, like you said, several hundred miles an hour trying to take off. So what you're gonna hear here again when you hear the reference forty three forty five, that is the number of the particular flight you're gonna hear southwest in there as well. There's other conversation going on the towers talking to other planes who also are trying to land. So that's just the setup for what you're gonna hear. But here it is the audio, the air traffic between those Frontier Airlines JET and the tower when this incident occurs.
00:07:09
Speaker 4: Yeah, PreCure forty three forty five. We're stopping on the runway. Uh there, we just hit somebody. We have an engine Fier.
00:07:14
Speaker 5: Front to forty three forty five.
00:07:16
Speaker 4: I see that towerseltlist to my nine twenty one left base for a month, this bus on.
00:07:21
Speaker 5: The runway and then fox trot and then Charlie Sheriff has fifty six twelve. Just hold your position thirty six twenty seven. Just hold your position hopefully, yes, said SUTs with a FRENCHI forty three forty five. I'm going to be rolling THEOD trucks now. You can you heal the souls on board and fuel meetings? All right?
00:07:42
Speaker 4: Forty three forty five. We have two hundred and thirty one souls on board. We have twenty one and twenty pounds of feel on board. There was an individual walking across the runway.
00:07:54
Speaker 5: Okay, we are rolling good trucks down Op seven Denver, did you copy all of this? Op seven? Running one seven left, two hundred and thirty one souls. We're rolling the trucks down cifty six twenty seven turn left on, Papa said, sor right now, you're busy as N twenty one? Are we clear to land? Once is left? One six leftful? Then I'll seven answer one seven left is closed. We've got smoke and the aircraft we're going to evacuate on the runway.
00:08:24
Speaker 1: I mean roades. I am quite frankly, I am really impressed at how calm everybody was in handling the emergency.
00:08:30
Speaker 2: I'm always impressed by pilots, by air traffic controllers, by nine one one operators. They hear some crazy stuff and lives are on the line, and we need those folks to remain cool, calm and collected. And it's so impressive when they do, because I'd be screaming.
00:08:47
Speaker 3: Oh my god, we justn't hit somebody, which is why you would never want me to be a commercial airline pilot.
00:08:52
Speaker 1: But roads, how devastating would that have to have been in that moment? How to know you just hit somebody with your plane and just you still got two hundred and thirty one other souls like you just said to take care of look. I applaud them for their professionalism in this one. The air traffic controller as well, and we were laughing. I told you'd hear it, but it sounds bizarre. There's another There are plenty of planes up there, and it's said, hey, I know you're busy, but can we land? Yes, that's interesting.
00:09:19
Speaker 2: I know this ain't a great time, but really we need to get down there now.
00:09:25
Speaker 1: So now, yes, the investigation certainly is underway. We should report. I think you might have mentioned. Minor injury was reported of a passenger at least on board, but nothing there deemed to be serious. But they're still trying to figure out who this person is, why they were on the runway, and certainly how they got their ropes. There are reports this morning, or at least the affiliate there is reporting they are going through and checking the perimeter fence to see if there are gaps, there are holes. How this person got out there?
00:09:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's so scary.
00:09:57
Speaker 2: And is there anyway somebody who was actually at the airp or would have been able to wander out some door to get through onto the tarmac.
00:10:05
Speaker 3: It's just scary.
00:10:05
Speaker 2: I'm also just imagining being on that plane and you know, you're about to take off. Everyone's a little anxious, you know, because that's take off and take Normally it's takeoff and landing, which are the two most dangerous times that you're on a plane. So everyone's kind of a little tense, holding their breath and just to have it come to a screeching halt to here's some sort of an impact. I mean, my god, that had to be scary for everybody.
00:10:30
Speaker 1: But this, of course robes add this, right, add this to the list of incidents we keep seeing at airports. I don't know robes, if we are there's more emphasis on them, there's more social media or are there more incidents? Are there more incidents of this type? But there are roes. We got a lot of them that are stacking up now that and sometimes they don't see. We hear about TSA and air traffic controller shortages. What is this though? This is not we're not saying it's either one of those things. How did somebody get out there for a stroll on an active runway.
00:11:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, there are system failures, there are some sort of security failures. There are human errors. I think that's what we're looking at right now.
00:11:16
Speaker 1: And we're going to remind about some of the recent incidents, and by recent we mean days ago, weeks ago. These things are starting to stack ups the There we continue here on this Saturday morning, waking up to another shocking incident at an American airport. One person hit, a person described Robes and all of the reporting as a pedestrian. That just seems like an odd thing to call somebody at an airport runway. We shouldn't have pedestrians. There's no such thing as a pedestrian on an active runway yet, No.
00:11:54
Speaker 2: Unless you've got a pedestrian bridge where some smaller airports they have ways to walk to jets that can't get too close and that sort of thing. We see that again. Smaller airport's Denver. I'm not sure they even have a pedestrian walkway of any kind, just.
00:12:11
Speaker 1: The name there shouldn't exist. There's some places people shouldn't be walking. There shouldn't be no such thing as a pedestrian on a damn runway. But here we are this morning, but Robes, there's been incident after incident, I guess probably the first one that comes to people's minds. It seems kind of similar to this is La Guardia. Right, plane hits a truck, two killed, and the two killed were the pilots.
00:12:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was awful.
00:12:36
Speaker 2: And then I was actually thinking about a couple of days ago in Newark where the plane clipped a delivery truck on the actual turnpike. That happened, I believe last Sunday. That was a matter of days, and he was injured.
00:12:51
Speaker 3: So you know, he's recovering at home. He's gonna be fine.
00:12:54
Speaker 2: But still, that's way too close, and frankly, that's insane you're driving on the turn.
00:13:00
Speaker 1: But we're talking about robes. To those two most recent I suppose within days of each other, we had a plane hit a delivery vehicle on the New Jersey Turnpike. And now we've had a pedestrian killed on a runway in Denver. Huh.
00:13:19
Speaker 2: Those two things should never happen, and it makes no sense how either of them did.
00:13:24
Speaker 1: But we're talking about here, robes. We're not talking about mechanical failures of we're talking about human beings.
00:13:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're not talking about bird strikes or some sort of engine failure or some sort of mechanical error.
00:13:36
Speaker 3: No, this is human error.
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Speaker 1: And the reminder it was March the one I'm speaking of. And people remember that the plane hit the emergency truck that was out there on the runway. That was human error. The guy knew it immediately. Remember the audio from.
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Speaker 3: The said I messed up from the.
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Speaker 1: Air traffic that was That was human error. In April, we had an incident JFK. This is just a few weeks ago. The planes came within three hundred feet of each other. This was the one where one was veering out of its lane as it was landing. You remember that one. Yes, that was again human era. Southwest jets too close as well in April, this was in Nashville. These two had to take evasive action. Once again, this was not mechanical.
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Speaker 2: It was actually wasn't the system on board the planes helpful in making sure that collision didn't happen because they were alerted to the fact that they were too close.
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Speaker 1: So it seems like the I guess the technical aspects of working the human aspects are not in some of these incidents. What do you do? I don't know. Is this a strain on the system. Is this because we don't have enough air traffic control as pilots are exhausted. It just air travel right now, you almost want to stay away from it. Just the system seems strained. Spirit just went out of business, so there's more people looking for fewer seats. Kind of a thing. I just I don't know, robes. Air travel is scary as hell.
00:14:53
Speaker 3: It's unnerving, it really is.
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Speaker 2: And when you see these incidents, the ones we just mentioned start to pile up, it really does give people pause. It does concern folks, And look right now, unfortunately, hopping in the car ain't necessarily that much better of a solution. Obviously, we know there's always incidents on the roadway, but gas prices are as high as they are. Like, it's travel in general right now is just tough. I think a lot of folks, and this is the busy travel season is about to begin. We just got through spring break and summer.
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Speaker 3: Travel is set.
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Speaker 2: We already have tickets and our plans, and so do so many other people. I wonder how much this causes folks to reconsider what they're doing and where they're going and how they're getting there.
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Speaker 1: But on both fronts, I'm scared to fly and it costs too damn much to fly.
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Speaker 4: Roll.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a tough summer potentially, and oh yes, we're still at war. And oh yes, gas prices are four dollars and fifty five cents a gallon right now. Yeah, and oh yeah, the straight off Horn Motes is still closed. Okay, happy, happy summer traveling season, folks. Just wanted to hop on give you that it was an important update this morning. There may be more to come out throughout, but right now at least ABC in Los Angeles reporting that that person struck by that Frontier Airlines jet at Denver Airport late last night has been killed. We'll keep an eye on it. We always appreciate you spending some time with us. From my dear Amy Roboc, I'm TJ. Holmes and we'll talk to you also