（中央社新德里17日綜合外電報導）1名婦女從阿拉伯聯合大公國飛往菲律賓的半空中早產，這架班機因此緊急迫降印度，女嬰也健康誕生。
法新社和亞洲新聞台（Channel News Asia）報導，預產期在兩個月後的這名媽媽，14日搭乘宿霧太平洋航空（Cebu Pacific Air）從杜拜飛往馬尼拉的班機時開始陣痛。
驚慌失措的空服員開始尋求醫療協助，乘客中有2名護士自願幫忙，機艙前部立刻變身臨時產房。
1名同班機乘客烏曼達（Missy Berberabe Umandal）在臉書貼文表示：「我們只聽到一聲尖叫聲，幾秒鐘後，出現幾聲微弱可愛的叫聲，就在那時我們知道寶寶出生了。」
照片中可看到這位媽媽抱著用毯子包裹住的新生兒，這位媽媽的國籍不詳。
機師在印度南部城市海得拉巴（Hyderabad）緊急迫降，讓媽媽和寶寶抵達馬尼拉前，可以獲得適當的醫療照護。
This baby girl has good luck starting from day one.
Passengers on an eight-hour flight from Dubai to Manila got rare surprise when a baby was born mid-flight, according to New York Magazine. One of the passengers shared her account on Facebook, writing that the Cebu Pacific flight attendants and two passengers who were nurses brought the expecting mom to the larger area at the front of the plane. “We only heard one semi-loud screech, and a few seconds later, there were tinier, cute screeches, and it was when we knew the baby was born… Moments later, the woman got up to go back to her seat, baby in arms (mighty strong, I might say),” Missy Berberabe Umandal wrote. Flight attendants and nurses then washed the baby with mineral water in the galley and clothed it, thanks to donations from other passengers flying with infants of their own.
The flight rerouted to India so that the mother and newborn daughter could receive necessary medical attention before continuing on to the Philippines—but not before the baby was given free Cebu Pacific flights for life, according to Umandal. Many Asian airlines like Thai Airways, Asia Pacific Airlines, and AirAsia are known to have offered up free flights for airborne newborns in the past. And while giving birth in-flight is arguably not an enjoyable travel experience, it clearly has its perks