Michael Mott, 41, jumped the fence at Denver international airport and had reached the runway when he was struck
The man who was fatally struck on Friday by a departing Frontier Airlines flight on the runway of Denver international airport died by suicide, the city’s medical examiner said on Tuesday at a news conference.
On Friday evening, the man, identified as 41-year-old Michael Mott, jumped an 8ft fence with barbed wire on to the runway, according to Phillip Washington, the airport’s chief executive. Roughly two minutes lapsed between Mott’s breach of the runway and when he was hit by the Frontier aircraft.
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