{"id":297654,"date":"2025-07-28T05:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T05:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/297654\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T05:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T05:06:12","slug":"family-of-missing-brit-to-fly-to-france-for-search-after-unsettling-phone-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/297654\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of missing Brit to fly to France for search after unsettling phone call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The family of missing Belfast man Robert Kincaid are racing to Paris in France after the 38-year-old disappeared after missing his flight to Dubin earlier this month<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2_Robert-Kincaid.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Kincaid went missing after missing his flight from Paris to Dublin\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Robert Kincaid missed his flight from Paris to Dublin(Image: family photograph)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The family of a missing man is flying to France in a frantic bid to track him down after he mysteriously <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/missing-persons\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"vanishedLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">vanished<\/a> at a busy airport before strangers answered his phone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Robert Kincaid, 38, from the Tullycarnet area of <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/belfast\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">East Belfast<\/a>, hasn\u2019t been seen or heard from in 10 days after failing to catch his connecting flight from Charles De Gaulle Airport in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/france\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Paris<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The oil rig worker was travelling to Dublin on July 17 after a stint offshore in Benin, West Africa, but he never made it onboard his final flight. Since then, there&#8217;s been radio silence. Worry turned to alarm when Robert\u2019s family tried to FaceTime him later that night and were shocked when the call was answered by a man they didn\u2019t recognise.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1_Robert-Kincaidjpghim.jpg\" alt=\"The 38-year-old's family are flying to Paris to try and help find him\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>The 38-year-old&#8217;s family are flying to Paris to try and help find him(Image: family photograph)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Even more chillingly, a second attempt the next day connected to a woman with a crying baby in the background before the phone went dead for good. Now, his devastated family is preparing to head to France themselves in a last-ditch effort to find him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Speaking to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.belfastlive.co.uk\/news\/northern-ireland\/family-preparing-fly-france-search-32147939\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Belfast Live<\/a>, Robert\u2019s brother Louis said the whole ordeal has been a waking nightmare. He said: \u201cRobert had been working on an oil rig in Benin and was due to fly back on July 17. He missed his flight at ten past seven from Charles De Gaulle Airport, and now his phone is completely off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The last contact came just after 8pm that night where Robert admitted he\u2019d had a few drinks after missing his flight. But at 10pm, the situation took a chilling twist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">His family said: \u201cWe tried FaceTiming him and it was answered by a black man in what looked like a corrugated hut. He spoke broken English and said the phone battery was dying and then the call cut out. The next day, a woman answered with a baby crying in the background. Since then, nothing. No calls. No texts. Just silence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The family has filed a missing person report with the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/psni\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Police Service of Northern Ireland<\/a> (PSNI) and has been in touch with the British Embassy in Paris, but so far, they\u2019ve been left in the dark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cEverything\u2019s going through Interpol, but we\u2019ve had no updates,\u201d Louis said. \u201cThe Embassy says Robert\u2019s not in any <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/hospitals\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">hospitals<\/a> or medical centres, but they can\u2019t tell us much more. We are up to high dough with worry. This is completely out of character \u2013 he always keeps in touch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Determined to do something, the family is now preparing to fly to France on Wednesday to launch their own search, despite knowing how overwhelming the task ahead is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Robert&#8217;s brother continued: \u201cIt\u2019ll be like looking for a needle in a haystack. But we can\u2019t just sit here and do nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family of missing Belfast man Robert Kincaid are racing to Paris in France after the 38-year-old disappeared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,110217,36,2207,36006,1618],"class_list":{"0":"post-297654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-facetime","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-hospitals","13":"tag-missing-persons","14":"tag-psni"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114929125604296096","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}