Apple’s AirTag continues to prove why it is a great alternative for locating lost items, even when they end up far away from us, as far away as in another country. According to the story told by Canadian passenger Lorraine Pedersen, the Apple tracker helped her recover her luggage after the airline lost track of it and did not disassociate itself from the situation.
Pedersen’s luggage journey began on October 23 when she boarded the plane that was to take her from Toronto to Winnipeg, two cities in Canada. However, it ended up in Kingston, the capital of Jamaica. How did this happen? After an intense investigation, the passenger solved the mystery, which we will tell you about in a moment.
How did a suitcase get lost from Canada to Jamaica?
Confident in the accuracy of the AirTag, Pedersen slipped one into her suitcase, perhaps in anticipation of any incident. Unfortunately, her foresight made perfect sense. When Lorraine disembarked, her suitcase was missing. **She checked her location through AirTag, and discovered that she was in Kingston, Jamaica. **
She immediately contacted WestJet, the airline she had flown with; however, they said it was impossible for her suitcase to have been transported to the Caribbean country because no WestJet flight had left Toronto on October 23. But the AirTag still placed the suitcase in Jamaica.
However, for some reason that no one could explain, the luggage flew through Swoop, another airline, which is a subsidiary of WestJet. Specifically, it was at Norman Mainley Airport. With the location in hand, she reported it to WestJet, but they did not take responsibility and denied the fact.
Therefore, the passenger had to contact the airport directly and they assured her that the luggage had been there for two weeks. Although she was able to recover her luggage, the woman claims that she lost part of her luggage worth US$3,000 (4,000 Canadian dollars) and said that her suitcase had been forced.
While not the perfect ending to other stories involving items recovered thanks to the AirTag, at least Apple’s device worked to find an explanation in this story that might otherwise still remain unanswered.
Currently, the AirTag sells for 39 euros, and in a few years a second generation will be released, featuring the second-generation Ultra Wideband chip, which debuted in the iPhone 15 models, allowing even more accurate tracking indoors.