Terrifying videos show Frontier Airlines passengers fleeing smoke-filled cabin after jet strikes person on Denver runway

Terrifying videos show passengers fleeing the Frontier Airlines plane which struck an apparent trespasser at Denver airport – as smoke fills the cabin.Some travelers ignored warnings to leave their belongings as they rushed to evacuate the hazy cabin Friday night caused by an engine fire.One video showed the Los Angeles-bound Airbus A321neo plane hurtling down the runway at speeds just under 140mph – before there was a bright orange flash, with sparks seen flying from the back of one of the plane’s engines.Passengers ignored instructions to their leave bags on board as they rushed to evacuate the dark, hazy cabin – with one shouting, “Fire on the engine, let me out.”“Smoke filled the cabin completely — it was super hard to breathe,” Nikil Thalanki told KUSA.“And then we were sitting there, what they told us to wait there, just remain seated for like two, three minutes, maybe four minutes, and then they opened up the exits.”One stewardess even shouted, “Please leave all belongings, your belongings are safe, your lives are more important.”Passengers were told to “stay low and jump” as they approached the inflatable slides.“Holy s–t, we almost died,” one passenger said in one social media clip they looked at the stationary plane. “That is f–king crazy.”Some passengers were seen taking in the extent of the damage to the plane’s engine following the explosion.Mohamed Hassan, who was also on the plane, told KUSA it was the “scariest experience of my life.”“I was on the flight, and I looked to my right and I just saw a fire, I heard a loud boom, people started screaming.I thought I was going to die,” he said.New security video released by the City and County of Denver shows the moment the person was struck while walking on the runway.The victim can be seen walking from one end to the other with little urgency.

They appeared to be perfectly aligned with one of the plane’s engines when part of their upper body was sucke...