This woman left her AirPods on a plane. She tracked them to an airport worker’s home

Julia Buckley, CNN
Published 10:49 AM EDT, Fri March 24, 2023

CNN
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We’ve had people tracking their bags when airlines can’t find them. Now here’s something new: a passenger tracking an item she left on a plane – to an airport employee’s home.

Earlier 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. She swiftly realized that they appeared to have been stolen.

But after nearly two weeks, she had them back – thanks to her tenacious tracking abilities.

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.

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