Originally published at: NTSB Reviewing Frontier Evacuation After Fatal Runway Strike
Agency collecting information after A321neo strikes and kills a person in Denver.
While you’re at it, identify and lifetime ban anyone who opened an overhead bin to take their carry-on with them during the slide evacuation.
Evacuation is research on the side, crew did well in commanding evacuation given smoke..
THE question is how the individual was able to get over airport fence and why. Escaping someone, getting to something on the other side, or suicide?
From the video it appears F/A’s deployed the evacuation slide on the same side as the engine fire. Normally they would dump them on the opposite side from where the fire originated.
Can’t say I’m a fan of the bias in language in these reports. “… aircraft struck and killed a person…” makes it seem the poor “pedestrian”, as they are described in other reports was intentionally targeted. The evil airline killed someone is the takeaway? How about “Criminal Access to Active Runway Ends Perpetrators Life As The Tower Looks On?” Tower says"…yeah, I see that…" in communications with the pilots after the impact. The “that” was crossing the grounds for quite some time as seen in the surveillance tapes. Why didn’t the FAA react to the security breach immediately and appropriately? Is the NTSB covering for the ineptness of itself and the FAA’s responsibility by diverting attention to the evacuation instead of their own faults as they did in DC? Just asking.
The aircraft did strike and did kill the person, who was on foot, ergo a pedestrian. So the reporting was—surprisingly—factual and without sensational embellishment. The bias seems to be all yours.
Without additional supporting information, no rational person would takeaway from the reporting that an evil airline used a jet airplane, loaded with fuel and passengers, to target a person wandering about on the runway for extermination.
I suspect the FAA didn’t react to the perimeter breach because they’re not in the “mall cop” business, providing security services to guard airport fences. Try the TSA.
Your defense is all anyone needs to make my point.
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