

The person who helped? A detective from San Mateo police force, working at the airport. "First they were like, 'I'm sorry you lost your belongings on our flight.' I was like, 'I didn't lose them, I was denied the ability to get my jacket by an employee. The plane had already taken off to Seattle, but Hayden used inflight Wi-Fi to track the earphones using the "Find My" app, which tracks Apple devices. "The pockets were open, and my AirPods were gone," she says. She reached for her jacket - she'd left the two breast pockets buttoned up, one with her earphones, one with some Japanese Yen inside it. "A child was screaming next to me and I thought, 'At least I have my AirPods,'" she remembers. He did indeed bring it to her - and she boarded her next flight to Seattle. I was tired, he said he'd bring it to me, I said OK." He said no - I was required by federal law to get off the plane and stand beside it, where the strollers are brought to.

"I was the third from last off the plane, so I asked the flight attendant if I could go and get it. "I realized before I was even off the plane," she says. RELATED: Apple sued by women who allege they were stalked by their exes using AirTagsĭisembarking from the plane at San Francisco International Airport - and a little disoriented after a nine-hour flight from Tokyo - she left her denim jacket on her seat, at the back of the plane. Hayden was flying back from a trip to Tokyo to visit her husband, who is on secondment in the military, when she was parted from the earphones. She swiftly realized that they appeared to have been stolen.īut after nearly two weeks, she had them back - thanks to her tenacious tracking abilities. Now here's something new: a passenger tracking an item she left on a plane - to an airport employee's home.Įarlier in March, Alisabeth Hayden, from Washington state in the US, was separated from her AirPods - Apple's pricey micro headphones - while disembarking from a plane in San Francisco. We've had people tracking their bags when airlines can't find them. Now, a passenger tracked an item she left on a plane to an airport employee's home
