Inflight entertainment system providing security for mobile peripheral devices onboard aircraft

A vehicle entertainment system comprising:

• a content server operative
• to establish communication connections through at least one communication network with mobile peripherals providing vehicle entertainment services to passengers, and
• to route entertainment content through the communication connections to the mobile peripherals responsive to commands received from the mobile peripherals;
• and
• a peripheral manager onboard the vehicle and operative to respond to an indication of a loss of an established communication connection with one of mobile peripherals for at least a threshold time and during a vehicle arrival state, which are defined by a loss reporting rule and indicate the one of mobile peripherals is being transported offboard the vehicle, by sending information identifying the one of the mobile peripherals and/or a passenger associated with the one of the mobile peripherals to a crew terminal to notify a crew member and/or adding the information to a report that is communicated through a communication modem and an off-vehicle communication link to an offboard peripheral manager located remote from the vehicle.