{"id":6714,"date":"2016-06-17T16:11:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T15:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=6714"},"modified":"2016-06-17T16:11:26","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T15:11:26","slug":"woman-gives-birth-on-board-saudi-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/woman-gives-birth-on-board-saudi-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman gives birth on board Saudi plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6715\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Woman-gives-birth-on-board-Saudi-plane.jpg\" alt=\"Woman gives birth on board Saudi plane\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" \/>A woman has delivered a premature baby girl on a Saudi Arabian Airlines flight to New York.<br \/>\nFlight SV21 was en route to New York JFK Airport from the Red Sea city of Jeddah when the woman, who was not named, went into labour.<br \/>\nThe pilots declared an emergency.<br \/>\nAccording to British media, the plane was flying over Northern Ireland and the flight was diverted to Heathrow Airport in London. The pilots were instructed to dump fuel before landing the Boeing 777.<br \/>\nA picture of the airline staff happily holding the new-born baby inside the cabin emerged on social media.<br \/>\nA Saudi Arabian Airlines public officer confirmed the mid-flight birth, saying that \u201ca happy event forced the Jeddah-New York plane to land in London\u201d.<br \/>\nAbdul Rahman Al Fahad said that the passenger was in her seventh month and had a report that allowed her to board the plane.<br \/>\n\u201cBoth the mother and the baby girl are doing fine,\u201d Al Fahad said, quoted by Saudi daily Okaz on Thursday.<br \/>\nHe added that the airline crew were trained for such emergency cases.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/woman-gives-birth-on-board-saudi-plane\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman has delivered a premature baby girl on a Saudi Arabian Airlines flight to New York. Flight SV21 was en route to New York JFK Airport from the Red Sea city of Jeddah when the woman, who was not named, went into labour. The pilots declared an emergency. According to British media, the plane &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,25,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6716,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6714\/revisions\/6716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}