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Secretary Duffy Promotes Secret Reality Show Amid Denver Runway Fatality

5/10/2026

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy promoted a family road-trip reality series on Fox News while secretly filming it for seven months, overlapping a runway fatality.
A trespasser died and twelve were injured on Denver Airport’s runway after a Frontier Airlines jet engine strike, prompting Duffy to warn only against trespassing.
The Department of Transportation said the production company paid costs and listed sponsors Boeing, Toyota, Shell, Google, Comcast and United Airlines.

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy promoted a family road-trip reality series on Fox News while secretly filming it for seven months, overlapping a runway fatality.
A trespasser died and twelve were injured on Denver Airport’s runway after a Frontier Airlines jet engine strike, prompting Duffy to warn only against trespassing.
The Department of Transportation said the production company paid costs and listed sponsors Boeing, Toyota, Shell, Google, Comcast and United Airlines.