Reports have surfaced after the incident that a 41-year-old man, Michael Mott, who allegedly broke in on an unguarded security camera in Denver International Airport, was fatally hit by a Frontier Airlines jet with a long criminal record.
Michael Mott was allegedly lured onto a runway area within the airport by climbing over an eight-foot barbed-wired fence. Just minutes after the flight was compromised and the Airbus A321neo hit the ground and deemed dead, officials said.
Later authorities determined Mott’s cause of death was multiple blunt force/ sharp force trauma. The Denver Chief Medical Examiner determined the manner of death to be suicide upon finding a scene investigation and post mortem examination.
According to reports, Mott would have more than 20 Colorado arrests since 2002. There are alleged to be serious charges, such as attempted murder, trespassing, resisting arrest and offences against property, listed on his criminal record. The incident had led to several past mugshots that surfaced online that indicated how many times over the years Mott has encountered law enforcement.
Police records showed that Mott had been most recently arrested April in Colorado Springs for felony trespassing, property damage and resisting arrest. It does not seem to matter why he was released prior to the airport incident with him.
Michael Mott was also being housed in a room, the police said, when he died in the city, which was his place of birth. Mott also lived in a room at the time of his death, police said, and was homeless when he died in the city where he was born. His ability to gain access to the secured area of the runway and the this-develops-that action which may have contributed to the tragedy remain a subject of investigation.