United Airlines flight from Newark to South Africa turns around over Atlantic after passenger suffers medical emergency

A flight from Newark Liberty International Airport to South Africa was forced to turn around over the Atlantic Ocean early Monday when a passenger suffered a medical emergency, according to the airline.

The 236 passengers and 14 crew members onboard the Cape Town-bound United Airlines flight spent more than eight hours in the air before the plane landed back in New Jersey.

Passengers were in the air for more than eight hours but ended up going nowhere, data show. FlightAware

The United Airlines flight was traveling from Newark, NJ, to Cape Town, South Africa. Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Post

Medical personnel met the plane as soon as it touched down, a United Airlines rep told The Post. The passenger’s condition was not immediately clear.

Data from the flight-tracking website Fligh