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Summary A woman gave birth to a baby on board an Alitalia flight from Milan to Paris.
The French woman went into labor about halfway through Flight 3508. The plane reportedly landed in time for a medical team to board the flight and help deliver the baby boy, all in front of other cheering passengers on the plane.Surprisingly, in-flight labors happen more often than youd think. In December 2009, a doctor on board helped deliver a baby on a Southwest flight from Chicago to Salt Lake City. In 2006, an Egyptian woman gave birth to a baby girl over Canadian airspace on a British Airways flight from Boston to Egypt. The baby was given Canadian citizenship.In March 2009, a Samoan woman gave birth on a plane without anyone noticing and left the baby in the planes trash. She was later charged in the case. And in December 2010, a newborn boy was found on a flight from the Middle East to the Philippines abandoned in an airplane trash bag
