A Ugandan woman has given birth to a baby girl on board an international flight from Amsterdam to Boston after going into labour mid-flight.
The six-pound (2.7kg) baby named Sasha was delivered on New Year’s Eve with the help of two doctors on the eight-hour-long Northwest Airlines flight.
Mother and baby were taken to a Boston hospital on landing and are doing well.
Sasha was deemed a Canadian citizen for customs’ purposes because she was born over Canada’s airspace.
Via the BBC.
3 Responses
Should someone this close to giving birth be flying?
Great for the customs form, but I think birth in an airplane makes a baby eligible for birthright citizenship from either the airplane’s registered country or the country of disembarkation (in addition to any citizenship acquired by descent from the parents). So in this case, probably no real Canadian citizenship for the baby.
Smart thinking on the mother’s part.