Baby was delivered during Caribbean Airlines flight from Kingston to the US; nationality of child to be determined
A routine passenger flight from Jamaica landed at New York’s John F Kennedy international airport with one more person than it took off with after a woman gave birth in midair, potentially setting up a tricky situation over the newborn’s citizenship.
The “medical event” occurred on a Caribbean Airlines flight from Kingston on Saturday, according to a news release from the carrier.
“Upon arrival, the mother and newborn were attended to by medical personnel and are receiving the necessary care,” the statement said. It did not say whether the baby was a boy or girl – or at what stage of the four-hour flight the infant was born.
In a conversation between the pilot of flight BW005 – designated Caribbean 5 – and the Queens airport’s tower, an air traffic controller suggested a name for the baby.
