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The passenger was given compensation by United.
  • A passenger left her Apple AirPods on a plane after landing in San Francisco from Tokyo.
  • Alisabeth Hayden told CNN a police officer helped her trace the AirPods to an airport worker's home.
  • She said United offered her $271 in expenses and 5,000 air miles as the AirPods were damaged.

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

Alisabeth Hayden told CNN she was flying with United Airlines from Tokyo, where she'd been visiting her husband on secondment in the military, to Seattle earlier this month.