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A Dutch couple is distraught after the disappearance of his dog at an airport in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday.
Floris Van Essen told ABC News that he and his wife had panicked after learning that Gale, an American Staffordshire Terrier, had apparently disappeared when the workers had boarded him on a KLM Royal aircraft. Dutch Airlines from Hartsfield International Airport – Jackson Atlanta, The Netherlands. Gale is an award-winning competition dog and attended an event in Kentucky before returning home.
Where is Gale?
This award-winning competition dog had to board a plane from Atlanta to Amsterdam, but she disappeared at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
Listen to its worried owners and the latest news from the research effort at 4 pm@wsbtv @ATLairport pic.twitter.com/6LD2kQDlhg– Audrey Washington (@AudreyWSBTV) March 25, 2019
"We really miss a family member," Van Essen told ABC. "We do not have children, dogs are our children."
Van Essen told ABC that he and his wife said they found the crate empty when they went to load it into the plane. However, KLM said in a statement sent to HuffPost that the dog had escaped from the cage while he was loaded into a cargo.
A spokeswoman for the airport told HuffPost Tuesday afternoon that Gale was still missing Tuesday afternoon.
Gale's research includes "4,600 acres of fields" around the airport, a spokeswoman told ABC. The local WSB-TV news channel reported that a wildlife biologist has been involved in efforts to find Gale.
NNehring via Getty Images People are looking in the vicinity of the airport, which includes over 4,000 acres of fields.
The incident comes days after the discovery of a dead dog in the hold of a KLM plane after the plane arrived in Los Angeles.
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