Passenger’s lost laptop forces United flight to turn around

A United Airlines flight carrying more than 200 people from Northern Virginia to Rome turned around near the U.S. coast after a passenger dropped their laptop and could not retrieve it.

The airline said in a statement that the computer “had fallen behind a cabin wall panel and through a small gap leading to the cargo hold,” prompting the pilots to divert the Oct. 15 flight back to Washington Dulles International Airport as a precaution.