{"id":650664,"date":"2025-10-31T08:50:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T03:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=650664"},"modified":"2025-10-31T09:36:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T04:06:46","slug":"is-your-carry-on-putting-flights-at-risk-united-flight-turns-back-mid-atlantic-after-passengers-lithium-ion-laptop-slips-into-inaccessible-cargo-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/is-your-carry-on-putting-flights-at-risk-united-flight-turns-back-mid-atlantic-after-passengers-lithium-ion-laptop-slips-into-inaccessible-cargo-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Is your carry-on putting flights at risk? United flight turns back mid-Atlantic after passenger\u2019s lithium-ion laptop slips into inaccessible cargo area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A United Airlines transatlantic flight bound for Rome made an unusual U-turn and returned to Washington Dulles Airport on Oct. 15 after a passenger\u2019s laptop fell through a gap in the cabin wall and into a portion of the aircraft\u2019s cargo area that the crew could not access, according to air-traffic recordings and airline tracking data. The lithium-ion laptop posed a safety risk to passengers after it fell near a sensitive section of the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a minor situation here with a passenger who has somehow dropped a laptop that was on \u2026 down the sidewall into the cargo pit area of the airplane,\u201d one of the pilots told Air Traffic Control (ATC) when they were notified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A United Airlines transatlantic flight bound for Rome made an unusual U-turn and returned to Washington Dulles Airport on Oct. 15 after a passenger\u2019s laptop fell through a gap in the cabin wall and into a portion of the aircraft\u2019s cargo area that the crew could not access, according to air-traffic recordings and airline tracking data. The lithium-ion laptop posed a safety risk to passengers after it fell near a sensitive section of the aircraft. \u201cWe have a minor situation here with a passenger who has somehow dropped a laptop that was on \u2026 down the sidewall into the cargo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}