A woman has become a mother high above Australia after she gave birth to a baby boy on a flight from Hong Kong to Adelaide.
Parmajit Kaur, 29, was returning home after visiting family in India when she went into labour on a Cathay Pacific flight yesterday morning.
Four doctors were on the plane to help the woman, who was 34 weeks pregnant.
Judith Hamel, a doctor, said airline staff alerted her when the woman went into labour. 'There were four of us: one surgeon, one orthopaedic surgeon, one kidney specialist and a humble general practitioner who was the only one who'd done very much in the way of deliveries, so I got that end,' she told Australian Broadcasting Corporation News.
'I got the operative end, one got the comforting end, the 'breathe, breathe, breathe' end, and the other got the looking-after-the-baby end.
'I think we all had fun once we knew it was all safe,' she said, adding that it was a smooth, 'fun' birth.
The labour forced the plane to land in Darwin, where mother and son were rushed to Royal Darwin Hospital. The other passengers then continued their journey.