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The Denver Medical Examiner has identified the person hit and killed by a Frontier Airlines flight as Michael Mott. City and airport officials held a press conference on the incident on Tuesday.
That is where Denver Chief Medical Examiner Sterling McLaren identified the man as the 41-year-old. McLaren said Mott’s cause of death was multiple blunt force injuries, and the manner of death was suicide.
Fingerprints at the scene helped identify Mott, McLaren said.
More on Michael Mott Being Identified
On Friday, May 8, a Frontier Airlines plane bound for Los Angeles struck him on the runway at Denver International Airport. It happened right as the jet was ready to take off. Thermal footage captured the moment the jet made contact, triggering a fire on the runway…