Flight SV21 was in transit to New York JFK Airport from the Red Sea city of Jeddah when the lady, who was not named, went into labour.
The pilots announced an emergency.
As per British media, the plane was flying over Northern Ireland and the flight was redirected to Heathrow Airport in London. The pilots were told to dump fuel before landing the Boeing 777.
A photo of the carrier staff joyfully holding the newly born baby girl inside the lodge gets viral on social media .
A Saudi Arabian Airlines open officer affirmed the mid-flight birth, saying that “a happy event forced the Jeddah-New York plane to land in London”.
Abdul Rahman Al Fahad said that the traveler was in her seventh month and had a report that permitted her to get onto the plane.
“Both the mother and the baby girl are doing fine,” Al Fahad said, quoted by Saudi daily Okaz on Thursday.
He included that the aircraft group were prepared for such crisis cases.
It's a standard law that if a birth takes place in an airplane, that child can travel free for lifetime in that airline - to any country he/she wants to. There will be no ticket charges for them as airlines record their entries and that's a lifetime reward that they can cash on!
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