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Left my iPad on the airplane

THX1139 said:
First off... it's spelled PLANE, not plan. Secondly... I highly doubt you have never ever made a mistake or forgotten anything important in your life. I can see how he could have left it... his mistake was putting it in the pocket to begin with. When you have bunch of things going through your mind and your tired, it's easy to overlook something. That is why when I'm leaving a plane, I'm usually the last one off. I don't want to feel rushed and forget something.
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gngan said:
I really also don't understand why a person can left out all the 'e' after 'plan' in a post. come on..!
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it must be my iPad auto correct feature :D... anyway i fixed it..

To the OP... I hope you get your iPad back dude. You best bet is to Call the Airline's Lost and Found.

Goodluck..
 
stark4 said:
I really really don't understand why a person can forget their iPad on the plane. I'm not gonna say anything if it is itouch or similar small device but iPad? You board the plane with it .. you used it in the plane... and you forgot all about it when you get off? come on..!
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I'd like for you to meet my wife, the queen of all who does this exact thing. As you will notice, there is no rhyme to reason for it. It just happens that way :)
 
I'm always sad to read about iDevices getting lost or stolen. It is careless but it can happen to anyone! To the OP, I'm sure this has become a lesson (a pretty expensive one too) and the best of luck getting it back!!!
 
I realize this is too little too late, but I fly a lot and...

NEVER LEAVE ANYTHING IN THE SEAT BACK POCKET YOU DON'T MIND FORGETTING AND NEVER SEEING AGAIN.

In fact on Delta, they tell you specifically not to put laptops in the seat back mostly because it is a safety issue, as in flying laptop (flying around the cabin), but it's good for this reason too. Lost some expensive shades that way and this was going back to get them 5 minutes after walking off the plane, but the cleaners had all ready been there.
 
Is there anything you can do? Not really. No disrespect, but I am surprised that you could ever leave something like that on a plane. If it was iPod touch or iPhone 4, I would understand they are small. But, iPAD? yea... kidding me?
 
If it was an iPod or iPhone, I would have just put it in my pocket.

Yes, clearly, I should have put it in my carry on when they told us to kill devices 30 minutes out. I was a lil' groggy from a half nap airplane style.

Like I said, I really really do not not typically lose things. I still have my mechanical pencil from college. The one that got me through every one of my math classes. Keys, wallets, cell phones, never an issue.

Other than fishing for any tips, this thread does serve as a warning:

  1. You have a lot of personal information on your iPad
  2. There are things you can do BEFORE you lose it to make it safer - locate it, or reset it
  3. Yes, it fits TOO well in the seat back pocket
  4. I'd label it (even if temporarily just for the trip) with your name and phone number, even though you are still relying on people returning it to you. Whomever has my iPad knows it is not theirs, and it was their decision to keep it.
 
I hope you get it back. After reading about your experience, Im going to label my portables. I also have MobileMe.
 
Huntn said:
I realize this is too little too late, but I fly a lot and...

NEVER LEAVE ANYTHING IN THE SEAT BACK POCKET YOU DON'T MIND FORGETTING AND NEVER SEEING AGAIN.

In fact on Delta, they tell you specifically not to put laptops in the seat back mostly because it is a safety issue, as in flying laptop (flying around the cabin), but it's good for this reason too. Lost some expensive shades that way and this was going back to get them 5 minutes after walking off the plane, but the cleaners had all ready been there.
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It's actually an FAR (Federal Air Regulation), enforced by the FAA on all airlines. I guess the FAA thinks that a laptop protruding could impede egress in the event of an emergency...but obviously they haven't seen some of the other crap that people jam in there.

In any case, it is good form to NOT put it, as you said, FARs notwithstanding, because it is so easy to forget. I am sure that the cabin cleaners find plenty of cell phones, iPods and iPhones in there after flights.

I feel really bad for the OP. I would be really gutted over the loss...aside from the cost, there's all that information, and just the hours and days you tend to kick yourself for losing something that valuable. We are our own harshest critics.
 
Hi,

Sorry for your situation.

My suggestion is to email yourself, asking the "new owner" to do the decent thing, hand the iPad back and collect a nice juicy reward. You'll need to make the reward as tempting as you can afford. $100 maybe?

Also, make sure that you have filed a report with the airline because they should have records of who cleaned the aircraft between flights and I'm pretty sure they are required to check for any left luggage or personal items as well as rubbish. This might put the heat onto the employee (if it was an employee) and combined with the reward they might do the right thing.

I hope you have some good luck!
Craig.
 
Sorry to hear this. I once left my iPod touch and kindle on airtran and they paged me back to the terminal to get the stuff.
 
I just watched that video and I don't think paying 4530 dollars is enough. It's not about money at the point. The guy is probably eligible for an upgrade to get a new phone. My point is that the cost is not the issue here. It's about the guy who lost his phone and he lost his information and contacts. The woman (or bitch) did not just sell his phone. She just sold his private information to someone else. That's a felony. She knew it was his and she tried to extort him. That's felony. She refused to talk to him and she probably ignored his phone calls. That's felony.
She needs to go jail. The punishment was not enough. It is PEOPLE LIKE THIS BITCH that makes our society fall apart. She should be thrown out of country.
 
craig1410 said:
Sorry for your situation.
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Thanks.

craig1410 said:
My suggestion is to email yourself, asking the "new owner" to do the decent thing, hand the iPad back and collect a nice juicy reward. You'll need to make the reward as tempting as you can afford. $100 maybe?
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I already changed all of my email passwords. The real danger was probably things in my email, not stuff on my iPad.

I did leave my Dropbox account alone and I pushed a .pdf called "please_return_my_iPad.pdf" to the Dropbox with my name and phone number in it.

craig1410 said:
Also, make sure that you have filed a report with the airline because they should have records of who cleaned the aircraft between flights and I'm pretty sure they are required to check for any left luggage or personal items as well as rubbish. This might put the heat onto the employee (if it was an employee) and combined with the reward they might do the right thing.
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Delta lost and found: Mon-Fri 8-5

I found out about it Saturday morning.

Hopefully the airline has it and I can get it back via the system. If a person has it, it looks like they have decided to keep it.

I know A LOT of people would have returned it. Unfortunately, there are probably more people who would keep it.
 
I'm really sorry you left your iPad on the plane. To the people that don't understand how this can happen, just wait until it happens with you.

I never put anything in the seat pocket, yet when I flew with my iPad for the first time I was so paranoid I checked to make sure it was in my carry on like five times before I left the plane.

It is such a shame that more people aren't honest.
 
The only thing I ever put in the seatback pocket is a magazine. I never put anything else there because I know I'm chancing forgetting it. When I flew a month ago the iPad went in the bag for landing.

I understand that the iPad w/o 3G doesn't have GPS but even if he had MobileMe he could still possibly get some sort of location out of it. The remote wipe, though, matters more than anything in that case. And yes, a passcode is a necessity. I have one on my iPhone and iPad. Once the iPad gets 4.0 and I can use full passwords I'll enable that instead.
 
If you don't understand how this can happen, you don't travel much. Your mind is often elsewhere, you are often groggy, delayed, scrambling to make a connections and surrounded much of the time by chaos. The only way to really avoid it altogether, is to put your phone/iPad, etc. back into another larger bag when they tell you to turn it off.

Sorry but I don't subscribe to the notion that people are inherently bad. I suspect you get it back. As noted above, it is actually considered THEFT not to try and return it to the owner.




ash =o)
 
If I had the pass code enabled, it would have been impossible for someone to open my email app and see any one of my eight email account addresses in there.

The ideal solution in my case would have been a pass code and a temporary sticker on the iPad with my name and phone number on it.

It does not do me a lot of good to get the location of my iPad as being in Costa Rica or Los Angeles and I'm in Atlanta.

The mobile me wipe/reset feature would be nice, but, I have NO other interest in anything else mobile me. I already have web sites, web storage, cloud storage, email accounts, etc.

Apple needs to make a one time $20 fee service where I buy the iPad register it with them at purchase, and tomorrow I could go to my Apple Store and have them wipe/reset it.

I said no to mobile me because I really don't need most of what the $99/yr service offers, other than this one specific instance.
 
ashVID said:
If you don't understand how this can happen, you don't travel much. Your mind is often elsewhere, you are often groggy, delayed, scrambling to make a connections and surrounded much of the time by chaos. The only way to really avoid it altogether, is to put your phone/iPad, etc. back into another larger bag when they tell you to turn it off.

Sorry but I don't subscribe to the notion that people are inherently bad. I suspect you get it back. As noted above, it is actually considered THEFT not to try and return it to the owner.




ash =o)
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I don't think people are inherently bad but I would bet a huge majority of people who found an iPad would keep.
 
...Also, if you saw the things that people put in the seat back pocket, you wouldn't put ANYTHING you wanted to keep in there...

Examples...Dirty, filled diapers...filled air sickness bags...half-eaten lunches...syringes...half-finished drinks...

No way am I EVER sticking ANYTHING in there.
 
snouter said:
If I had the pass code enabled, it would have been impossible for someone to open my email app and see any one of my eight email account addresses in there.

The ideal solution in my case would have been a pass code and a temporary sticker on the iPad with my name and phone number on it.

It does not do me a lot of good to get the location of my iPad as being in Costa Rica or Los Angeles and I'm in Atlanta.

The mobile me wipe/reset feature would be nice, but, I have NO other interest in anything else mobile me. I already have web sites, web storage, cloud storage, email accounts, etc.

Apple needs to make a one time $20 fee service where I buy the iPad register it with them at purchase, and tomorrow I could go to my Apple Store and have them wipe/reset it.

I said no to mobile me because I really don't need most of what the $99/yr service offers, other than this one specific instance.
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If you enable the passcode you get the option of having the data wiped after 10 attempts.
 
Sorry about your loss, some tips for the future though:

Enable the pass code with the wipe option after ten shots.

Don't leave it in the seat pocket (kinda obvious :p)

Write your details down in pages or a paint app or anything like that and set it as your home screen. Make sure it is nice and big! (I make it bright red myself) and you could even add -if you are reading this, this person has stolen my ipad-

If you MUST use the seat pocket, when the half hour warning is given check thoroughly for all your belongings and pack them in your carry on bag/case/whatever.
 
Today was sad. Had another flight.

Bought a copy of The Economist.

Felt like 1998. :(
 
You're living my worst gadget nightmare. I hope you get it back -- I'm so attached to my iPad and iPhone 4. Sad, but we all learn from the cautionary tale of not putting stuff in the back seat pocket. I'll be sure to avoid it in the future (thanks to the post by Built about what people put in there haha).

Maybe someone will step up and do the right thing. Would be nice if Apple could trace it by serial number and GPS. :/
 
Is one of your email accounts by any chance hooked up to an exchange server? You might be able to remote wipe from exchange webmail.
 
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