Baby Born Mid-Flight on Uzbekistan Airways Plane

Two doctors on board an Uzbekistan Airways flight from Istanbul to Tashkent helped deliver a baby after a passenger went into early labor, Orda.kz reports.

With assistance from the flight crew, the doctors safely delivered the baby and provided medical care to both mother and newborn.

At the captain’s decision, the plane made an emergency landing in Urgench, where local medics were ready to receive the mother and her newborn son,
 Uzbekistan Airways said in a statement.

This marks at least the third in-flight birth on the airline in the past 18 months. In January, a baby was delivered during a Tashkent–New York flight. Another was born on the Tashkent–Istanbul route in April 2024.
 
Original Author: Alexandra Mokhireva