When an airline made his bag disappear, a magician bought another plane ticket just to get back in the airport and track it down with an Apple AirTag — and found it sitting right on the tarmac.

Magician Danny Orleans’s bag was missing when he landed in Newark the day before a performance.

He used his Apple AirTag to track down his bag and bought a plane ticket to get back into the terminal.

Orleans looked out the window and was able to spot his bag just sitting on the tarmac.

Danny Orleans is usually the one making things appear and disappear — but when the well-known corporate magician got off of a United Airlines lost and found from Chicago to Newark on Tuesday, it was his own bag that had vanished.

Orleans was traveling to New York to perform at a trade show the following day. The bag he checked included about $1,500 worth of sound equipment that he needed in order to perform.

Orleans told Insider he got off the plane around 12:15 p.m., went to the United Lounge for a free lunch, and then headed to baggage claim. When he arrived, everyone on his flight was still waiting for their luggage to appear.

Thankfully he had a trick up his sleeve — an Apple AirTag in his missing bag.

“I checked and I could still see that it was still out on the runway. It was not in the terminal,” Orleans said. “I waited and it didn’t move. I waited and it didn’t move. I waited about 30 minutes, and then it moved — but it moved to another place on the runway.”

Orleans, who says he flies anywhere from 75,000 to 100,000 miles a year, got in line, like others on his flight, to report his bag was missing. When he finally got to the front, the United representative told him the bag was not even in Newark as it had not been checked in.

“I said, ‘Yes it is, it’s right here in my phone,'” he said. He explained that he could see where his bag was on the AirTag app, but the employee said they could not do anything with the information. Instead, they said they could send his luggage to where he was staying within five days, but he needed the bag for his show the following day and was only planning to be in town for