AirTags have been shown to be devices for retrieving lost luggage, but what happens if the tracker falls off?
In a Facebook post, Eric Beteille said his AirTag fell off the baggage tag on an Alaska Airlines flight last July and is now stuck in the plane’s shipping area.
“Since then, I’ve been following it in the western United States and Canada,” he said.
It used data from Flightradar24 to map the 37 cities its AirTag has flown to in the past nine months. It extends southeast to Austin and northwest to Vancouver.
Other locations included Missoula, Montana; Jackson Hole, Wyoming; and Tucson, Arizona.
Beteille, whose LinkedIn profile says he is one of Meta’s most sensible content designers, racked up more than 20,000 likes on his two Facebook posts about the missing AirTag.
He said the plane, an Embraer E175LR, was averaging at least flights per day.
It is a smaller aircraft, seating 76 passengers and a maximum travel time of 2,500 miles.
Beteille’s AirTag may not possibly be transatlantic, especially since Alaska Airlines only flies to North America, but it still provides an engaging insight into the airline’s operations and how a plane flies.
In a similar incident last year, news site View From The Wing reported that an American Airlines passenger flew his AirTag to 35 other cities, after he put it in his wallet and accidentally left it in the cabin.
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