Footage from the incident was said to be captured by passengers that showed absolute chaos aboard the plane with plane and food trays scattered everywhere.

This included all kinds of personal items seen lying in all directions. While the plane did manage to land safely in Lagos, six people were said to have suffered from injuries due to the incident.

They’ve now been released as per a spokesperson for United Airlines.

It’s still not clear what resulted in this abrupt movement but as per United, they were busy working with aviation officials in America and Nigeria to understand what exactly could be the cause here.

Flight tracking data shared displayed that the same plane on the same journey from Lagos to Washington Dulles International Airport had previously been diverted on Tuesday.

The flight suddenly dropped 1000 feed approximately 89 minutes into the flight and was then diverted to Ghana. It’s still not clear if both events linked to diversions were related or not.

Last week, another flight of Cathay Pacific from Boston was forced to make an emergency landing after smoke from the cabin was reported a few minutes from the takeoff time.