James David Dickson

The Detroit News

A body was found on a runway at Coleman A. Young Municipal Airport on Detroit’s east side on Wednesday, police said.

It was about noon when an air traffic controller noticed a figure on the runway, said Officer Dan Donakowski, a Detroit Police Department spokesman. He said airport security checked it out and found a dead man.

City airport, as it is often called, has two runways. According to the last numbers available, which are based on 2015 data, an average of 180 “airport operations a day” go through the airport, which is on the 11400 block of Conner, off Gratiot.

Police are trying to determine if the man suffered trauma.

A spokesman from the mayor’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

jdickson@detroitnews.com