There shouldn't have been an article in the first place. Ben Schlappig and his garbage website have quickly become a cancer on this industry. He strives to turn the mundane into clicks, and our industry is suffering for it. Now we have people like you second guessing other crewmembers for a mundane and routine diversion. All because of some clickbait website built by a guy who couldn't get a real job, but in spite of his dearth of journalistic talent, found a niche in pandering to the dumbest among us.

 

The first 2 article I read all mentioned that the laptop fell between a gap in the polaris seat and the sidewall. One Mile at a Time didn't mention that because they are hacks who rely on suckering people into clickbait and use anonymous forum posts as their sources, and they shouldn't be taken seriously.

 

I don't understand why you are doubling down on second guessing the crew and trying to make it seem like they diverted "just to be on the safe side" or something. THEY had the information at the time and I'm sure the decision to turn around over the Atlantic wasn't made lightly, however they deemed it necessary.

 

I'm glad someone else said this.

I can't stand that website.

 

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.

 

What he said. ^^^^^^^^^^

 

Hopefully an improved/modified cabin seat and floor design will be the corrective action to come out of this. Seems crazy that a laptop could fall into the cargo bin.

 

I wonder how much food and trash is down there? 😏 think your comment above is a good guess…

 

i once heard a test that was done to find out how much extra weight was being carried around based on trash and dirt under the floors. They throughly cleaned the aircraft during a D check and then re weighed it. The number had a 7 in it…..70 lbs seems to low but 700 seems to high….either way it’s a lot.

side note….had to have MX fish a cell phone out from under the floor boards on a 787. Same as this aircraft they had to remove panels in the cargo hold to get to it.

 

Anyone remember when AA discovered a colony of mice living (and dying) on a 767 during maintenance?

https://www.aviationpros.com/home/ne...lines-airplane

Imagine them gnawing through wiring insulation causing an electrical short over the mid-Atlantic (trying to stay on--or near--topic).