A FLIGHT bound for the US turned into an impromptu delivery room when a passenger went into labor minutes before landing.
The Caribbean Airlines flight bound for New York requested speedy landing after the woman’s waters broke mid-air on Saturday.
Airport officials have suggested an appropriate name for the impatient newborn that was delivered on the aircraft’s final approach to the Big Apple just before noon.
Flight 005 landed at John F. Kennedy Airport after departing from Kingston, Jamaica.
“We’ve got a pregnant passenger who is going into labor at this time,” a staff member onboard said in ATC audio obtained by CBS News as they requested a quicker landing slot.
A JFK ground controller confirmed medical personnel would be at the gate upon landing.
“Is it out yet?” they asked, to which the staff member confirmed it was.
“Tell her she’s got to name it Kennedy,” the controller joked.
The condition of the mother or her baby has not been publicly shared.
Just last summer, a woman from Thailand gave birth on an Air India flight while traveling with her toddler.
The 29-year-old was 35,000 feet in the air when she went into labor with her baby boy.
She gave birth to the bundle of joy before the plane landed in Mumbai and was taken to hospital for health checks.
The passenger was due to get a connecting flight to Bangkok “but nature had other plans,” an airline official said at the time.
While rare, when babies are born on planes, they most often take on the nationality of their parents.
However, if born in the airspace above a country with “right of soil” laws, such as the US, where you can take on the nationality if you are born there, these babies could technically gain that country’s citizenship.
The country the airline is registered to may also play a role in the child’s citizenship claims.
