"We have a minor situation here with a passenger who has somehow dropped a laptop down the sidewall into the cargo pit of the airplane, We don't know the status of it, we can't access it, we can't see it, So our decision is to return to Dulles and find this laptop before we can continue over the ocean."
"as a precaution to retrieve a customer's laptop that had fallen behind a cabin wall panel and through a small gap leading to the cargo hold. Maintenance crews retrieved the laptop, inspected the aircraft and the flight later departed for Rome."
"If overcharged or damaged, it can result in thermal runaway, leading to rapid temperature increase."
United Airlines Flight 126 from Washington Dulles to Rome turned back about an hour after departure when a passenger's laptop fell into a cavity behind a cabin wall panel and through a small gap toward the cargo hold. The flight diverted approximately 50 miles off Cape Cod and returned to Dulles so maintenance crews could retrieve and inspect the laptop and aircraft. The flight later departed and reached Rome about four hours late. Laptops contain lithium batteries that, if overcharged or damaged, can undergo thermal runaway and pose a fire hazard, prompting the precautionary diversion.
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