A MASSIVE police operation to find a missing man led to an RAF helicopter being brought in to search from the skies above York.
The Sea King helicopter, from RAF Leconfield, near Beverley, was drafted in by York Police to comb the city's open spaces in the search for a missing 48-year-old man, who was suffering from depression.
Meanwhile, a crew from York Fire Station launched their rescue boat to scour the River Ouse between the Nether Poppleton Bridge and Naburn Marina, near Bishopthorpe.
Inspector Dave Sutcliffe, of North Yorkshire Police, said: "A man from the Tadcaster area was reported missing in the York area at 8.15pm on Thursday.
"Local searches took place in the small hours of yesterday morning, and then escalated to include the RAF search and rescue unit.
"There was a suggestion that he might have been missing in the area of the river."
The search was called off at 10.30am yesterday, when family members contacted the police to say the missing man had returned to his home.
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