42,000 feet in the air, woman gives birth to baby girl in a plane

Labour pains are horrible but what if it occurs high in the air with no doctors to support! Few of them are fortunate to have heroes beside them at the time of help. Read on.

Ouagadougou: A woman identified as Nafi Diaby, delivered a baby in the Turkish Airlines on Monday. According to reports, the woman boarded the flight in Conakry, the capital of Guinea. After the plane took off, the woman suffered labour pains. It was fortunate for the woman as the crew of the plane helped her in the delivery process.

Kudos to the woman and the crew members, a baby girl entered the world. The flight took off from Conakry to Istanbul via Ouagadougou.

Just after the delivery, the Twitter was filled with the warm greetings to the woman, baby girl and the crew members as the airline management posted pics of the incident. The baby was named Kadiju.

"Welcome on board Princess! Applause goes to our cabin crew!" posted the airline on their Twitter handle along with Captian and other crew members posing for photograph along with Kadiju.

Later in Ouagadougou, the medical staff shifted both Nafi Diaby and baby girl Kadiju to the hospital where they were reported to be in good health.

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