In Monrovia, a flight aborts landing due to a dark runway.

A Brussels Airlines flight bound for Liberia's Roberts International Airport was forced to abort landing on Wednesday evening due to a dark runway caused by an airport lighting failure.

Officials verified that the flight was diverted to Sierra Leone before returning to Liberia hours later.

When the flight was diverted, there were concerns that the jet was running low on fuel.

When the plane was ready to arrive, Liberia's Transport Minister Samuel Wlue told the BBC that there were lighting "glitches" at the airport, but that it didn't take long.

He submitted a video to the BBC showing the plane arriving in Liberia approximately around midnight.

Mr. Wlue stated that he will be going to the airport on Thursday am to gather additional information.

After the lighting issue was resolved, Information Minister Ledgerhood Rennie told the BBC that an Air France flight landed at the airport.

When the Brussels Airlines plane couldn't land, it hovered over her farmland near the airport, according to a former member of the House of Representatives.

A flight attendant is heard in one video circulating on social media assuring passengers that they were flying to Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital, due to landing difficulties.

Last month, the Liberian airport authorities shut down all flights after midnight for up to a year to allow management to repair recurring lighting issues that led an Arab carrier to divert a Monrovia flight to Freetown.

Air France, one of just two European airlines still operating in Liberia, warned the Liberian government that the route would be discontinued at the end of April for a variety of reasons, including route viability.

The airport, located 45 kilometers (28 miles) south of Monrovia, was established in the 1940s by the Americans to improve the refueling and mobility of allied soldiers during WWII.