Search underway for Hawaii woman who disappeared while traveling to NYC

A hopeless hunt was underway connected Saturday for a 30-year-old Hawaii pistillate who went missing portion traveling to New York City.

Hannah Kobayashi departed from her autochthonal Maui connected Friday, Nov. 8., and was expected to drawback a connecting formation astatine Los Angeles International Airport, KHON2 reported. She was scheduled to onshore successful New York City the pursuing day, but she ne'er arrived.

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A hopeless hunt was underway connected Saturday for Hannah Kobayashi, a Hawaii pistillate who disappeared portion traveling to New York. (Family Handout)

Her household believes she missed her connecting formation retired of LAX, and a abbreviated YouTube video that surfaced this week appeared to amusement Kobayashi extracurricular an lawsuit successful Los Angeles past Saturday, according to Hawaii News Now.

Her cellphone placed her backmost astatine LAX connected Monday earlier being turned disconnected oregon going dead.

“We cognize her phone’s off due to the fact that it goes consecutive to voicemail,” her sister, Sydni Kobayashi, said. “We’ve been trying to telephone and telephone and call, text. None of the texts are getting delivered. We can’t find her phone.”

Before going vigor silent, however, Kobayashi connected Monday sent retired respective troubling substance messages to household and friends, reported Hawaii News Now.

“I got tricked beauteous overmuch into giving distant each my funds,” she wrote, followed by a 2nd connection that read, “For idiosyncratic I thought I loved.”

In antithetic connection to her aunt successful New York, she mentioned a “spiritual awakening,” past apologized successful different text, penning that she “definitely got intercepted.”

Another substance to her roommate reportedly said idiosyncratic was trying to bargain her identity, according to KITV. That connection was the past clip anyone has heard from her.

“She felt similar she was successful danger,” her father, Ryan Kobayashi, told ABC7. He noted she’s a seasoned traveler and has been to places similar Europe and Japan, but it’s “never happened wherever she’s not successful interaction with anybody.”

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A hopeless hunt was underway connected Saturday for Hannah Kobayashi, a Hawaii pistillate who disappeared portion traveling to New York. (Family Handout)

A missing persons study for Kobayashi was filed successful Los Angeles connected Wednesday, and her household has besides been successful interaction with Maui police.

“We’re conscionable hoping that she is harmless and steadfast and alive,” her begetter said. “If anybody knows thing we’d conscionable truly admit immoderate benignant of help.”