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Baby on board: Airline crew delivers baby girl mid-flight

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso, April 10: A Turkish Airlines flight landed with one more passenger than it took off with after a baby was born mid-air with the help of the airline's crew.
By Associated Press

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso, April 10: A Turkish Airlines flight landed with one more passenger than it took off with after a baby was born mid-air with the help of the airline's crew.


The airline tells NBC News a woman who was 28 weeks pregnant complained of birthing pains during the flight over West Africa from Conakry in Guinea to Burkina Faso's capital city of Ouagadougou . The airline says its cabin crew rushed to help deliver a baby girl named Kadiju.


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The airline put up pictures on social media Friday showing the crew smiling for photos with the baby and the mom, who was lying across a row of three seats.


The pair was taken to a hospital once the plane landed and the airline says both are doing well.

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