There was chaos this morning at the General Aviation Terminal of the Murtala Muhammad domestic airport, MM1 when Arik Air passengers of a commercial airline disrupted the operation of the airline over the cancellation of their flights.

Scores of passengers of the airline who had their Owerri flight cancelled on Thursday had stormed the counter, insisting they must be airlifted to Owerri first before any other flight is operated.

This degenerated into rowdiness at the domestic airport leaving passengers scheduled for morning flights stranded.

The irate passengers also complained that the airline refused to give them food or water.

The airline officials were however seen pacifying the angry passengers who insisted their cancelled flight must be operated before any other flight today.

When contacted, the spokesman of the airline, Mr Ola Adebanji, promised to find out what was happening and get back to our correspondent.

The House of Representatives had on Thursday mandated its committees on Aviation, Commerce and Human Rights to investigate the state of airports, activities of airline operators and the coordinating agencies in the aviation sector.