Michael Mott, Denver, Colorado man died by suicide after deliberately jumping a fence & walking in front of path of Frontier Airlines plane mid take-off along runway as authorities now investigate motive as police say he was known to them.
A man who was killed after being struck by a propeller jet ‘walking’ in front of a Frontier Airlines plane at Denver International Airport on Friday deliberately sought to end his own life according to Colorado authorities.
Michael Mott, 41, died by suicide when he ‘calmly’ walked across the runway while the aircraft barreled toward him just on 11.19 p.m, May 8 according to Denver City and the County Medical Examiner’s Office.
The cause of death was determined to be multiple blunt and sharp force injuries, Chief Medical Examiner Sterling McLaren said during a news conference Tuesday.
Denver man was known to local police
Security video of the runway showed Mott get sucked into one of the engines of the Airbus A-321neo mid-takeoff.
Mott had jumped the perimeter fence and was on the tarmac before colliding with the plane at 11:19 p.m., the airport confirmed.
Police Chief Ron Thomas stated law enforcement had previous interaction with Mott but declined to give details.
Investigators had yet to determine what led to Mott taking his own life, whether he had left behind a suicide note, his background and trying to find computers and other technology or anyone who may have talked with him that might shed more light on his state of mind.
Suicidal man jumped 8-foot fence and walked into path of plane taking off
Denver International Airport chief executive officer Phil Washington said during the news conference that an alert went off around nine minutes earlier, when an airport operator on duty ‘reviewed the alarm and identified a herd of deer just outside of the perimeter fence.’
‘They did not initially see the trespasser,’ Washington said. ‘The camera view was alternating between the wildlife and the individual. There are some ditches in the area, so the person was out of view for a bit as well.’
‘It took approximately 15 seconds for this person to jump over the 8-foot fence topped with barbed wire,’ he added.
Minutes later, the Federal Aviation Administration reported to airport officials that a person had been struck.
