UA748 - Incident: United B763 near Newark on Jan 22nd 2026

A United Boeing 767-300, registration N668UA performing flight UA-748 from Washington Dulles,DC (USA) to Geneva (Switzerland), was enroute at FL330 about 60nm east of Portland,ME (USA) when the crew decided to turn around and divert to Newark,NJ (USA) after a passenger's laptop had fallen into a gap at the cabin side wall and gone through a gap into the cargo hold. The aircraft landed safely in Newark about 85 minutes later.

The laptop was retrieved with its LiOn battery undamaged, the aircraft was able to depart again after about 3 hours on the ground and reached Geneva with a delay of about 4.5 hours.