A KLM Royal Dutch Airline’s Boeing 777-200 with registration mark, PH-BQI, whose flight emanated from Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, had a passenger delivered a baby while flying along the Mediterranean Sea.
The Dutch Airline’s aircraft operated with flight number KL588 was heading for Amsterdam Schiphol, the Netherlands, on a date the Fathers’ Day celebration rented the air.
As soon as the cabin crew informed the Pilot in Command, PIC, of a female passenger in labour, though not of Labour Party, LP, but that of the pangs preceding a baby’s safe arrival to the world, the pilot made a detour.
Hence, the pilot scan for the nearest airport and found Spain nearest but the air traffic controller in Barcelona diverted the captain to El Prat terminal where an emergency landing was granted.
The Spanish air traffic control guided the aircraft down towards runway 02 of Barcelona Airport where the aircraft safely landed in the waiting hands of the airport’s medical personnel.
One of the passengers on board posted on social media, “A fellow passenger started labour, and delivered her baby in one of the galleys of the aircraft, much to the delight of passengers and crew”.
However, a few hours later, the aircraft departed for Amsterdam, where it landed with a delay of about two hours and twenty minutes.
Another passenger, Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz, gave the account of the incident in a tweet thus, “Wonderful handling of both the emergency landing in Barcelona plus the baby delivery by KLM crew + medical staff at El Prat airport! Both mother and newborn are safe! We went on to AMS and now heading back home in Madrid.”
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