Woman Who Left AirPods On Plane Tracked Them Down To Airport Worker's Home

United Airlines gave the woman $271 and 5,000 air miles after she complained about the condition of the headphones.

A woman recently tracked down her lost Apple AirPods to an airport worker's home two weeks after she first left them behind on a plane. 

Speaking to CNN, Alisabeth Hayden said she was flying with United Airlines from Tokyo, where she had been visiting her husband, to Seattle earlier this month. Shortly after getting off the plane on a layover at San Francisco International Airport, she realised she had left her jacket behind and her headphones too. 

"I realized before I was even off the plane," Ms Hayden said, as per the outlet. "I was the third from last off the plane, so I asked the flight attendant if I could go and get it. 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 tired, he said he'd bring it to me, I said OK," she added. 

The flight attendant indeed bring the jacket to her, following which she boarded her next flight to Seattle. "A child was screaming next to me and I thought, 'At least I have my AirPods,'" she recalled. However, she said that when she reached for her jacket, she realised her AirPods were gone.