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United flight makes $100,000 U-turn after laptop drops through aircraft panel into cargo hold

Ellsworth Toohey
Oct 30, 2025
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A United Airlines passenger managed to lose their laptop in a place you’d think Boeing would have mentioned during the design phase: a gap in the cabin wall that leads directly to the cargo hold.

The plane was two hours into its Washington-to-Rome flight on October 15 when someone’s MacBook — or Dell, or whatever — vanished in…

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