Please fasten your seatbelt, make sure your tray table is in an upright and locked position, and prepare for delivery.
A passenger on a Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta gave birth to a healthy 5 1/2 pound girl just before the Boeing 737 landed at Portland International Airport in Oregon on Friday night. Two paramedics who happened to be on the flight assisted, borrowing blankets from other passengers and using a shoelace to tie off the umbilical cord.
Baby Brielle Renee Blair came in about two weeks ahead of schedule; the plane, about 20 minutes.
Her mom, Ashley Blair, who is from Tennessee, was flying to Oregon to be with her own mother for the birth, but didn’t quite make it. She went into labor about half an hour from Portland.
One of the paramedics, Tina Fritz, told The Associated Press on Monday that she and the other paramedic, Kaarin Powell, were returning home after vacationing in the Dominican Republic. They had been helping a nurse attend to the medical needs of another passenger at the back of the plane when a flight attendant asked them to check on Blair.
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