Baby on board! Myanmar woman gives birth on Silk Air flight to Yangon

The life of a flight attendant isn’t all smart outfits and smiles: the cabin crew of a Silk Air flight from Singapore to Yangon helped deliver a baby yesterday after a Myanmar woman gave birth just as the plane landed.

She went into labor during the three-hour flight, and had the baby at around 4:30pm local time, according to a Facebook post by the Yangon Aviation Police.

Photos posted to social media by Myanmar Airways International, whose ground staff also helped with the delivery, showed the child in wrapped up in blankets.

He and his mother were cared for at the airport clinic before being sent to North Okkalapa Hospital.

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