Some passengers were 'crying' after an oven caught fire on their flight to South Africa

• An oven fire broke out on a KLM flight from Amsterdam to Johannesburg on Thursday.
• Flight attendants rushed to put out the flames and console "shaky" passengers. 
• "There was a lot of crying," passenger Tiana Cline told Insider.

An oven fire broke out on a KLM flight from Amsterdam to Johannesburg on Thursday that left some passengers  "very panicky" after they saw thick smoke in the cabin.

"There was a lot of crying," Tiana Cline, who was on the flight, told Insider.

Cabin crew rushed to extinguish the flames and try to console "shaky" passengers before the Boeing 777-200 turned around over the Mediterranean Sea to go back to Amsterdam.

Cline, South Africa-based journalist, had been in Europe for a conference.