Up in Canadian clouds, two Indian doctors made a split-second decision. The result was the mid-flight birth of 6.5lb girl. When the flight crew announced a baby had been born on board, the passengers erupted in applause. From the Boston Globe:
- Ugandan woman gave birth to a girl aboard a flight from Amsterdam to Boston yesterday.
It seems fair to say that the passengers who boarded Northwest Airlines Flight 59 in Amsterdam yesterday did not expect that by the time they landed in Boston seven hours later they would have new faith in themselves, and almost certainly not in the state of humanity. But as they jubilantly disembarked at Logan, they clapped one another on the back, hugged, and talked of life-changing experiences and renewed beliefs in the goodness of people.
“The spirit of America is alive,” beamed Dr. Natarajan Raman, a radiation oncologist from Minneapolis.
The reason was the unexpected, and rare, midflight birth of a 6 1/2-pound baby girl named Sasha.
“Everybody was there to help,” said Raman, who helped deliver the child.
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