Originally Posted by
BlueScholar
Here's a great idea: Let's take a laptop with a large litium ion battery, shove it into an inaccessible gap up against the skin of the fuselage, subject the battery to god knows what crushing forces as you go through turbulence, and then let's go across the Atlantic! It sucks, but diverting and getting the damn computer out of there is the right call.
Yeah, it's subject to unusual force and if it does catch on fire you can't put it out or move it into a BCB. Would probably light the seat on fire too.
Minimum some very nasty smoke in the cabin, until it burns out and the cabin can can be vented. Worst case, uncontrolled fire in the cabin.