(CNN) An off-duty Transportation Security Administration officer fell to his death Saturday from a hotel balcony inside Florida's Orlando International Airport, officials said, sending confused travelers scattering past security checkpoints unscreened and causing flight delays. Orlando police said a man in his 40s jumped, in an apparent suicide, from the Hyatt Regency Hotel onto an atrium floor in the main terminal at about 9:30 a.m. The man was found in critical condition and taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said. At 9:30 a.m., an individual jumped from the Hyatt Regency Hotel into the atrium area of the airport. — Orlando Police (@OrlandoPolice) February 2, 2019The fall caused momentary panic in the atrium as well as long delays for some travelers who were trying to fly into and out of the airport.

Source: CNN February 02, 2019 18:16 UTC