A baby boy born during a plane's flight between two Southeast Asia countries was named after the airline he was riding on. Saw Jet Star's unique name is due to his being born last week on a Jetstar flight from Singapore to Myanmar.
The baby was born on April 22 during flight 3K583 after landing in the country's former capital of Yangon, according to CNN. A team that included three doctors and crew members helped to safely deliver the baby.
During the three-hour flight the mother went into labor. After the baby's birth the airplane's passengers applauded for the new passenger. Both the mother and the newborn baby are reportedly in good health and have been discharged from the Myanmar hospital.
The budget airline has announced it will donate baby supplies with a total value of about $745 to the child's family.
Jetstar's policy requires pregnant passengers in their third trimester (28 weeks or later) to provide a doctor's letter to verify that they are healthy. Meanwhile, women pregnant up to 40 weeks can travel on flights a maximum of four hours long.
A Jetstar spokesman explained that the airline's crews are trained for many types of events that could happen on the aircraft. He also stated that the company is proud of how they helped the kind doctors onboard with the delivery of Jetstar Asia's all-time youngest passenger, according to The Independent.
Jetstar is an Australian airline headquartered in Melbourne and founded in 2003. It is a Qantas subsidiary and was created to challenge low-cost airline Virgin Blue.
In a similar event Debbie Owen was flying from Ghana to the United Kingdom in 1990 when she gave birth on a British Airways flight. The passport of her daughter Shona Owen states that her birthplace was an airplane.
After Debbie went into labor she was moved to first class. A Dutch doctor named Wym Bakker who had been training pregnant women in the Ghana countryside was on board and helped with the birthing.
Debbie gave birth as the plane approached London's Gatwick airport. The baby's given name Shona Kirsty Yves spells out the initials SKY. An irony is that Shona was working in the travel industry as of January 2016, and explained her rare birth is a good topic to start conversations.