{"id":941,"date":"2026-05-12T22:41:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=941"},"modified":"2026-05-12T22:41:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:41:50","slug":"death-of-man-struck-by-frontier-airlines-plane-ruled-suicide-by-medical-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=941","title":{"rendered":"Death of man struck by Frontier Airlines plane ruled suicide by medical examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Mott, 41, jumped the fence at Denver international airport and had reached the runway when he was struck<\/p>\n<p>The man who was fatally struck on Friday by a departing Frontier Airlines flight on the runway of Denver international airport died by suicide, the city\u2019s medical examiner said Tuesday at a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday evening, the man, identified as 41-year-old Michael Mott, jumped an 8-ft fence with barbed wire onto the runway, according to Phillip Washington, the airport\u2019s chief executive. Roughly 2 mins lapsed between Mott\u2019s breach of the runway and when he was hit by the Frontier aircraft.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/12\/frontier-airlines-plane-suicide\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Mott, 41, jumped the fence at Denver international airport and had reached the runway when he was struck The man who was fatally struck on Friday by a departing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=941\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}