Agree. Over the years, I've left my ipad on at least 4 planes and and was able to retrieve them on all but one occasion. My luckiest one was leaving it between the seat and the seat divider/armrest on a DEN-DFW AA flight. That plane then continued to ONT and back. I met the return ONT-DFW plane just before boarding my return DFW-DEN flight. Gate agent escorted me onto the plane where I found my ipad exactly where I left it.

Funniest one was when Mrs. SFO777 left her iPad on a DFW-DEN AA flight and she didn't remember until 3 days later. Activating her Find my iPhone feature, we discovered that it was in Concourse A at DEN. Calls to AA baggage service and the DEN Admirals Club produced no luck despite the Find my iPhone evidence. But 30 minutes later, we saw it on the move, leaving the terminal and winding up in a DEN employees parking lot. I activated the annoying and highly audible "alarm function". Within 5 minutes, it was on its way back to the terminal and the AA Baggage Service office...where AA called me to tell me that "we found your wife's iPad" LOL. I drove out to DIA and picked it up 90 minutes later.