India, June 25 -- An Indian mother and travel creator took to Instagram to recount the "scariest experience" she had on a flight with her baby daughter as the plane was forced to turn around mid-air due to rising tensions in the Middle East.

Anindita Chatterjee said that she was returning home to Mumbai from New York with her daughter after a three-month stay in the US.

"We flew 13 hours to Kuwait, had a short layover, and then boarded our connecting flight to Mumbai. But mid-air, things took a terrifying turn. Iran bombed Qatar, and we were flying through that very airspace. It was unreal and terrifying," she wrote, recording herself during the scary moments on the flight.

With airspace swiftly shut down, the pilot was forced to retur...