The Moment Pilot Realizes Plane Packed With Passengers Hit Person On Runway

“Tower, Frontier 4345, we’re stopping on the runway. Uh, we just hit somebody… we have an engine fire.” That transmission crackling over air traffic control audio Friday night after a Frontier Airlines jet struck a person on the runway during takeoff, triggering panic onboard and a fiery emergency evacuation. It happened shortly after 11:15 p.m. ...