Passengers on a Frontier Airlines flight at Denver International Airport were deplaned after a gun magazine was found on the plane Sunday night, just days after another Frontier flight in Denver hit and killed a person.
Frontier flight 4765 was scheduled to fly out of Denver to Phoenix Sunday night and preparing for departure when the ammunition magazine was discovered, according to a Frontier spokesperson.
The passengers were deplaned and bussed to another location, according to an airport spokesperson.
The passengers were then rescreened as a precaution, and the officials did a security sweep of the plane. Nothing else was found on the plane, the Frontier spokesperson said.
The delay caused the flight crew to exceed their duty time, so the passengers on the plane were booked on a new flight early Monday morning.
Neither the airport nor the Frontier spokesperson said where or how the gun magazine was discovered or whether a passenger had it on them.
The incident happened just two days after another Frontier flight, this one bound for Los Angeles, hit and killed a person walking on a DIA runway Friday night.
The Denver Police Department, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Transportation Security Administration are investigating Friday night’s incident involving the person hit by the plane.