The SkyWest Airlines Flight 5622, made an emergency landing at Buffalo International Airport.

A SkyWest airlines flight heading to Connecticut was diverted on Wednesday after 3 passengers lost consciousness. The plane descended quickly and was forced to make an emergency landing in New York. The plane which carried seventy five passengers took flight at Chicago’s O’Hare international airport and was heading towards Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks which is located in Connecticut. The plane landed at Buffalo Niagara International Airport around 11:40 AM. A spokesman at SkyWest quickly reported that one of the passengers who was aboard the plane lost consciousness and that the pilots decided to descend rapidly as a measure of precaution.

In a statement that was made later by Marissa Snow, also a SkyWest spokesman, a total of three passengers lost consciousness during flight 5622. Nurse Mary Cunningham from Yale New Haven Hospital located in Connecticut was aboard the plane. She stated at WTNH-TV that she helped in providing medical attention when the first woman during the flight passed out. “When she passed out we got her oxygen as soon as possible and before long she came back and was alert,” said Cunningham. “After she was feeling much better I went back to my seat and after a short period of time they called me back because the person who was sitting behind her had passed out also.” For almost eight minutes the pilots descended the plane at a very steep decline, descending at the rate of 7,000 feet per minute. This was reported by the flight tracking service FlightAware. “We were dropping so fast and I didn’t know what was going to happen,” said Larry Johnson from Danbury, Connecticut, for the WTNH.

SkyWest airlines said that the plane landed safely and that the passenger was treated before being released. Seventeen more passengers went through medical checks at the airport after landing, fifteen adults and two children, but no one needed greater medical attention, said C. Douglas Hartmayer an airport spokesman. He also said that anyone who wasn’t feeling well was also treated at the gate. The Federal Aviation Administration stated that initial information pointed towards the jet’s pressurization system, and that this may be the cause of people passing out. This was later investigated and it turned out the plane Embraer E170 had no issues. The investigation is still ongoing.