Do you want to access to this and other private contents?
Log in if you are a subscriber or click here to request service

Woman gives birth on a plane, landing needed

Warsaw, Poland - She was in her sixth month of pregnancy

A woman gave birth yesterday to her child on board of a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Boeing 777/200 en route from Islamabad (Pakistan) to Manchester (UK). Thanks to the help of a doctor there were no further complications, but the woman's and the baby's conditions required the pilot to make an immediate landing in Warsaw (Poland), where the new-mother and the new-born were urgently carried...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1104624
Rome, Italy, 05/18/2009 16:14
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

Similar

AirlinesSydney: B-787/8 Dreamliner plane tire damaged during takeoff

The aircraft lands safely at the departure airport after an hour and a half

It was initially thought that one of the tires of the B-787/8 Dreamliner airplane of the Australian company Jetstar Airways, registration VH-VKH, had exploded during takeoff from Sydney-Kingsford Smith... more

AirlinesCanada: runway excursion for B-767/338ER plane operated by Cargojet Airways for Amazon Air

A malfunction of the slats would have caused the landing gear to collapse

Flight CJT2387, operated by Cargojet Airways for Amazon Air in the early hours of yesterday morning on a B-767/338ER cargo aircraft (registration C-GAZI), went off the runway after landing at Vancouver... more

AirportsViolence in Haiti: armed gang attacks UN Helicopter

Emergency landing at Port-au-Prince airport. 18 on board unharmed

An armed gang in Haiti opened fire yesterday afternoon local time and hit a United Nations helicopter, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing in the capital Port-au-Prince. American and local media... more