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By Daniel Yee, the Associated Press Antonio Ayala disappeared
Monday after his flight landed and he was not found until nearly 24 hours
later, near a bus station in downtown Police took him to Family members said Ayala
could have gone into a coma without dialysis. Ayala was flying from "He was supposed to
be escorted from one plane to another and it never happened," said
Ayala's granddaughter, Cecilia Flowers of El Paso, Texas. Delta officials said the
airline is investigating but would not elaborate. "We are working very
closely with the family and we are very pleased the family has been
reunited," Delta spokeswoman Peggy Estes said. The airline flew Ayala's
relatives to "He's just glad that
I'm here," Ayala's son, Antonio Ayala Jr., said at the hospital.
"He told me, 'I've been crying a lot,' but he can't recall what
events" happened. It is not the first time
that a person with Alzheimer's has been lost by an airline. In 2001,
Margie Dabney, 70, became separated from her husband during an American
Airlines stopover at Dabney was never found. Last year, her husband, Joe Dabney, agreed to an undisclosed settlement with American Airlines. He had sought $10 million. Copyright © 2004
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