Oh boy! Baby born in plane toilet named after Emirates airline

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• safe landing: Cabin crew pose with the family after an emergency landing in Vietnam

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DUBAI: An Emirates flight from Dubai to Manila was forced to make an emergency landing in Vietnam after a Filipina delivered a baby in the aircraft toilet, XPRESS has learnt.

Pilots landed the Boeing 777 (EK332) at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat airport after mid-day on August 22 to offload the Filipina mother, identified as ‘Nedz’, and her new-born son, whom the parents planned to name ‘EK’ (the Emirates airline code), for emergency treatment.

The baby was delivered thousands of feet over Indo-China and about two-and-a-half hours before expected touchdown in Manila. EK was born pre-term at 27 weeks.

The incident caused a minor commotion on board. Two Filipina nurses on the flight jumped out of their seats to assist in the mid-air delivery.

HIGHER CALLING

“I was sitting beside them,” Karen Caballes-Santos, one of the two nurses, told XPRESS. A licensed nurse in the Philippines, she flew back to Manila unexpectedly after finding a job in Dubai, though not as a nurse.