My guess would be that someone who boarded that flight was using airport wifi and they're looking for them. Checking the MAC address on the iphone.
Here's the 'bomb' they're trying to avoid with all this false flag bullshit:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-34/
Statements & Releases
Statement from the Press Secretary
Law & Justice
Issued on: September 17, 2018
At the request of a number of committees of Congress, and for reasons of transparency, the President has directed the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice (including the FBI) to provide for the immediate declassification of the following materials: (1) pages 10-12 and 17-34 of the June 2017 application to the FISA court in the matter of Carter W. Page; (2) all FBI reports of interviews with Bruce G. Ohr prepared in connection with the Russia investigation; and (3) all FBI reports of interviews prepared in connection with all Carter Page FISA applications.
In addition, President Donald J. Trump has directed the Department of Justice (including the FBI) to publicly release all text messages relating to the Russia investigation, without redaction, of James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and Bruce Ohr.