Flight makes emergency landing after woman goes into labour

Woman delivers baby with the help of Qatar Airways cabin crew

A Qatar Airways flight was forced to make an emergency landing after a Thai woman went into labour and managed to deliver the baby with the help of the cabin crew on Tuesday .

According to NDTV, the flight from Doha to Bangkok landed in India's Kolkata where the mother was admitted to hospital.

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Both the mother and the baby are doing fine, officials said.

"An unscheduled flight from Doha to Bangkok QR-830 landed around 03:09 am at Kolkata airport in medical priority landing. The pilot of Qatar flight had asked SOS to ATC for medical priority landing. The flight landed safely, the airport team with the doctor was attending the concerned." Kolkata Airport official said.