Father Delivers Baby on Airplane

Most babies don’t take their first international flight until they’re at least a few months old. But little Jadan Brown may be the most well-traveled newborn in the world: he entered the world from an airplane, somewhere over Canada.

By Kathryn Hawkins. Posted on June 11 2008

Jadan’s mother, Jacel, was seven months pregnant when she boarded the Korean Air Lines flight from the Philippines to New York City, but her doctor had cleared her for the long flight. Her baby had other plans, however - mid-way through the flight, she began to feel labor pains, and called on her husband to assist her to the plane’s kitchen area.

“At the time we didn’t know that the baby was actually coming out - she had to walk from business class into the kitchen area and kneel down to allow us to remove her clothes. At that time, when I was able to remove her clothes, the baby was actually on his way out,” her husband Larry told The Early Show.

Jadan was born two months early, weighing less than 3 pounds, but after the plane landed, mother and baby were transported to a local hospital, and both are doing very well. Though if Jacel decides to have another baby, we’ve got the feeling she might stay earthbound in the third trimester next time around.

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