Originally Posted by JohnBurke

The article doesn't have to give you after-the-fact specifics about where the laptop was eventually located, or how it was extracted. That's irrelevant, and it's also information that the crew didn't have at the time they diverted. The fact that the laptop fell into the seat and was stuck there and couldn't be extracted, was enough. This was an exercise in potential: a potential very serious issue occurred, and the crew made the call that rather than risk that potential developing on a transatlantic flight, they'd divert and address it on the ground. There is absolutely a way to say it was the right call.

It was the right call.

Moreover, what was discovered after landing verified the correctness of the crew's decision. There is zero question here tha the crew made the correct call. The crew didn't have additional information, and made it correctly, precisely because they had no way of getting additional information. So long as that laptop was no longer a controlled item, and was in a place it could be compromised, it was enough. Whether it was actually compromised or not is irrelevant, and doesn't change the correctness of the decision. The diverted. It was the right call. End of story.