Andhra woman delivers baby on board flight

on board a city-bound Kuwait Airways flight from the Gulf country on Wednesday.A woman named Radha (37), who was eight-and-a-half months pregnant, delivered a male baby on the plane Luckily for her, there was a doctor on the same aircraft and was able to help her undergo a normal delivery, without complications.

The flight Scheduled to land at 4.20 am, she went into labour around 3.45 am and gave birth by 4.16 am The passenger Radha Subramani, native of Andhra Pradesh, was returning home from a Gulf country.Her spouse and brother, residents of Chennai, turned up at the airport to take her home.

Radha and her husband Subramani, from Pulapatharu Rajampet village near Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh, had gone to Kuwait to seek work last year Officials said the baby and mother were fine and taken to a private hospital for post-natal care.