A healthy baby boy was delivered on board a transatlantic United Airlines flight.
baby boy was delivered on boardThe mother was traveling from Accra, Ghana, to Washington, D.C., when she started having contractions. The flight was halfway across the Atlantic when she went into labor.
Luckily, a doctor and a United flight attendant, who is also a nurse, were on board to assist during the delivery. "The delivery was uneventful other than being at 30,000 feet," United Airlines said in a statement to ABC News.Paramedics were ready to meet the plane when the almost 12-hour flight landed at Dulles International Airport in D.C.
One United employee greeted the mother with a balloon and handwritten card that read:"On behalf of the United team at Washington Dulles, congratulations on your baby boy!"The mother and newborn baby were were greeted with gifts from United on their arrival into Washington D.C. on Jan. 30, 2022.In April, somewhere over the Pacific, a woman who didn't know she was pregnant
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