Arrival the other way: A woman gave birth to a child on a flight from Birmingham to Bucharest
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This passenger had not checked in: A commercial airliner was forced to make a stopover in Prague because of the birth of a baby.
According to the CTK news agency, the plane was actually on its way from Birmingham, UK, to the Romanian capital, Bucharest.
Despite the hasty change of course, the boy was still born in the air.
A spokeswoman for the airport service said the mother and child are doing well, according to CTK.
Both were taken to a Prague clinic.
The other passengers were able to continue the flight after the stopover.
Airport manager Jiří Pos wished the newborn good luck on Twitter.
A spokesman said the newborn boy weighed 2.75 kilograms and his mother was a Romanian who was flying home from the UK.
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