A US-bound flight suddenly turned into a delivery room when a passenger went into labor just minutes before landing.
A New York-bound Caribbean Airlines flight requested an early landing after a woman broke her water mid-air on Saturday.
Airport officials have suggested a fitting name for the precocious newborn who was born just before noon on a plane’s final approach to the Big Apple.
Flight 005 landed at John F. Kennedy Airport after departing from Kingston, Jamaica.
“We’ve got a pregnant passenger who is currently in labor,” a staff member on board said in audio obtained by ATC. CBS News Since he requested an early landing slot.
JFK ground controllers confirmed that medical personnel would be at the gate upon landing.
health risk
White House breaks silence on claims of Trump being taken to Walter Reed Hospital
break hell
Horror Movie and 90210 star hospitalized with 7 kids after scary accident
“Is it out yet?” he asked, to which the staff member confirmed.
“Tell him he has to name it Kennedy,” the controller joked.
The condition of the mother or her baby has not been shared publicly.
Last summer, a woman in Thailand gave birth on an Air India flight while traveling with her child.
The 29-year-old woman was at 35,000 feet with her baby when she went into labor.
Before the plane landed in Mumbai, she gave birth to the child and was taken to the hospital for a health checkup.
The passenger was scheduled to get a connecting flight to Bangkok, “but nature had other plans,” an airline official said at the time.
Although rare, when children are born on board, they often adopt the nationality of their parents.
However, if these children are born in airspace over a country with “soil rights” laws, such as the US, where you can take nationality at birth, these children can technically acquire citizenship of that country.
The country in which the airline is registered may also play a role in a child’s citizenship claims.
