Baby Born During Southwest Airlines Flight
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Bruce Bennett/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — A baby born on a plane mid-flight joined a very different kind of mile high club.
Southwest Airlines Flight 623 bound for Phoenix was diverted shortly after taking off from San Francisco on Tuesday when a pregnant passenger went into labor, the airline confirmed to ABC News.
But before the plane could make an emergency landing in Los Angeles, the baby was born with the help of a doctor and nurse who were on board.
A team of medics met the plane when it did land in Los Angeles. The identity of the mother has not yet been released, but she was transported to a hospital.
The airline did not make public the baby’s gender.
The other 111 passengers on board flight 623 boarded another flight to Phoenix.
This isn’t the first time a baby was born mid-air on a Southwest Airlines flight. In 2009, a passenger gave birth to a baby boy while on a flight from Chicago to Salt Lake City.
Babies born on flights are usually given a birth certificate from the state in which their plane lands.
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