A Saudi Arabian plane was forced to make an emergency landing in London, England after a pregnant woman gave birth while the plane was in mid-air.

According to the Daily Mail, an emergency was declared on a Saudi Arabian Boeing 777 while the plane was in Northern Ireland. The pilot notified air traffic control to divert and make an emergency landing at Heathrow Airport, London because a female passenger was in labor.

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It is known that flight number SV21 was on its way from Jeddad, Saudi Arabia to John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York (USA). As soon as the plane landed successfully, the woman and the child were rushed to the hospital.

A photo posted on social media showed the crew holding a newborn baby. The female passenger is believed to have given birth to a baby girl, but no details about the mother and child have been released.

In April 2016, a pregnant woman also went into labor on a Jetstar flight that took off from Singapore, just minutes before the plane landed in Yangon, Myanmar. A baby boy weighing 2.9kg was delivered with the help of doctors who happened to be on the flight and the flight crew. The mother later named her baby after the airline, Saw Jet Star./.

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