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[Victoria Watcher]

CNN:

 

 

News Alert: Person who jumped perimeter fence is struck and killed by Frontier plane during takeoff on Denver airport runway

 

A Frontier Airlines plane aborted takeoff after it struck a person on a runway at Denver International Airport late Friday, a spokesperson for the carrier and the Federal Aviation Administration told CNN.

Flight 4345, an Airbus A321, was departing from Denver en route to Los Angeles and carried 224 passengers and 7 crew members, Frontier Airlines said in a statement. It was scheduled to depart at 10:39 p.m. local time.

As the plane was departing, “the aircraft reportedly struck a pedestrian on the runway during takeoff,” the airline said.

[Blair M.]

The guy got sucked into one of the jet engines, which ejected only one identifiable limb onto the runway. 

 

In official airport terminology - the trespasser was "fully or partially consumed by an operative jet engine".

[Victoria Watcher]

The person was at least partially consumed by one of the engines, an official confirmed to ABC News, igniting a massive engine fire. Passengers said smoke filled the plane within seconds.

 

https://abc7ny.com/p...ation/19068264/

 

 

 

Person smoke.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, Yesterday, 05:57 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Toronto’s Pearson airport is launching a multibillion-dollar upgrade that aims to boost passenger numbers by more than a third to 65 million a year by the early 2030s.

The revitalization plan looks to ramp up traffic and tighten on-time performance with improvements ranging from repaved runways to “modernized retail” and possible terminal expansions.

Kicking off Monday, the initial $3-billion phase revolves around an expanded airfield, better lighting systems, more electric vehicle charging and new baggage carousels.

 

https://www.castanet...o-boost-traffic

 

 

Pretty ambitious.   Can't happen if we don't renew CUSMA with little change though.  If it is cancelled altogether our economy will shrink 15-25%, and we will have a recession worse than anything in the past 100 years.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, Today, 09:12 AM.

[Mike K.]

Right, so we’ll need bigger airports to handle the exodus.

[Missed Approach]

Quick trip to the terminal today to pick up, had a quick walk around the terminal, very little indication of any construction