ORLANDO, Fla. – Police are looking for an 83-year-old man who was unable to make his flight out of Orlando due in part to the worldwide CrowdStrike outage, according to investigators.
News4JAX sister station WKMG in Orlando reported Patrick A. Bailey checked in for his flight Sunday at Orlando International Airport, yet “lingering results” from the global technology disruption prevented him from flying home, the Orlando Police Department said on social media.
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Bailey spent the night at a local hotel, checked out Monday morning and hasn’t been heard from since, the post states. The man’s family said they tracked his cell phone he left in the lobby of the Doubletree hotel near the Orlando International Airport.
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Police did not immediately share which airline Bailey was set to fly on, nor where he was going.
WKMG spoke with Patrick Bailey’s son, who lives in Iowa. He said his father is still recovering from back surgery from last month and gets easily confused.
“If I could go some place, drive some place and intercept him it would be so much easier,” Patrick Bailey II said. “That’s probably the hardest thing trying to sit on your hand and wait for information to come in.”
Those who see Bailey or know of his whereabouts are urged to call 911.