A woman has given birth to a baby boy during a three-hour JetBlue flight from Puerto Rico to Florida.
The airline tweeted a confirmation of the incident, and made a statement to People:
“We’d like to thank the crew and medical professionals on board for their quick action under pressure, and wish the new mother and son all the best.
“Flight 1954 was operated on aircraft N523JB, coincidentally named, ‘Born To Be Blue.’”
What an amazing coincidence our brand NEW #BabyBlue born at #BornToBeBlue aircraft @JetBlue @HelloJetBlue Thank you to our amazing IF crew and Angie AO Leader for suprising and delight this new mom!#Culturepic ???? ???? pic.twitter.com/807iDKNjcD
— Y. Ramos (@YQRamos) February 16, 2019
It would have been an exciting and scary experience for the mother; but what does it mean for the baby? What are the logistics of when a baby is born mid-flight?
If a baby is born on a plane what is its nationality?
“There are several different factors to take into account when a child is born on a flight,” Vaibhav Tanwar, an immigration and nationality law specialist, told Traveller magazine.
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I was flying from Dubai to Australia (on Emirates) when a call went out for medical personnel, which I ignored until a second call went out. Turns out, a young Filipina maid had boarded the flight (having hid her pregnancy under an abaya) and had gone into labour. Another nurse and I ended up delivering a healthy baby (we had to lay the poor girl on the the galley floor) -this was no easy task with limited equipment and we hoped to hell nothing went wrong. The plane was diverted to Karachi where it landed and a female Pakistani doctor came on board where she proceeded to scream at the other nurse and I for not removing the placenta (difficult to do during a rough descent). She was both rough and rude to the poor girl who along with her baby were hustled off the plane to a nearby hospital. That poor girl (unmarried from what I heard ) was so terrified of giving birth in a Dubai hospital that she risked travelling home when full term. The advice in the above article is very sage.