Robert Kincaid was last seen at Charles De Gaulle Airport, where he failed to board his flight home.
Robert Kincaid was last seen in Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport on 17th July(Image: Family photograph)
The family of a missing British man who didn’t board his flight home ten days ago are preparing to fly to France to begin searching for him.
Robert Kincaid from Tullycarnet in East Belfast, had been working on an oil rig in Benin and was due to fly home on July 17. However, the 38-year-old missed his connecting flight at Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris to Dublin and has not been heard from since.
Later that evening, his family attempted to FaceTime him but the phone was answered by a man they did not know. A second call was picked up by a woman. Since then, all attempts to reach him have failed.
Speaking to Belfast Live, Robert’s brother Louis said his disappearance was completely out of character, and the family is now “up to high dough with worry.”
East Belfast man Robert Kincaid has been missing in Paris for 10 days(Image: Family Photograph)
“Robert had been working on an oil rig in Benin and was due to fly back on 17th July. He missed his flight at ten past seven from Charles De Gaulle Airport, and his phone is completely off now,” Louis said.
“When we spoke to him around eight o’clock, he had missed his flight and had had a few drinks on him. We tried to contact him around ten o’clock that night on FaceTime, and it was answered by a black man who appeared to be in a corrugated hut. He spoke with broken English and said that the phone was on zero percent, then it cut off.
“We rang him again the following day, and the phone was answered by a woman, and we could hear a baby crying in the background, but the phone is now completely gone, and calls and messages aren’t going through.”
Louis said the family reported Robert missing to the PSNI and have been in contact with the British Embassy in Paris, but so far they have received no information.
“We have contacted the British Embassy and the PSNI. Everything is being done through Interpol but as of yet we have heard absolutely nothing.
“We haven’t been able to get in contact with the French police, and the Embassy has said that they are restricted in terms of what they can tell us other than he is not in any of the hospitals or medical centres.
“We are up to high dough with worry. It has been ten days, and it is completely out of character for us to have no phone contact.
“We are preparing to fly out for a couple of days on Wednesday to do a mini search. I know it will be like looking for a needle in a haystack, and I am not sure what we will accomplish, but we have to do something.”
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