Phillip Washington
Denver runway fatality reveals a weakness in DIA security
DENVER | In less than three minutes, an intruder exploited a security gap at one of the nation’s busiest airports and stepped into the path of an airplane hurtling down a Colorado runway with 231 people aboard. The 41-year-old man slipped unnoticed past motion detectors in a remote corner of Denver International Airport, which sprawls […]
DIA security initially missed trespasser who was killed by plane on runway
FORT COLLINS | Workers at Denver airport initially missed a security breach by a 41-year-old man who scaled an 8-foot perimeter fence and crossed a runway where he was hit and killed by a plane in a fiery collision, authorities said Tuesday. The runway fatality underscores the longstanding challenge of keeping intruders out of major […]