{"id":187901,"date":"2026-04-07T02:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/187901\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T02:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:12:21","slug":"woman-gives-birth-as-flight-from-jamaica-lands-at-jfk-airport-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/187901\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman gives birth as flight from Jamaica lands at JFK Airport in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">JAMAICA, Queens (WABC) &#8212; A passenger on a Caribbean Airlines flight went into labor and gave birth as the plane approached JFK International Airport this weekend, the airline said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Flight BW005 from Kingston, Jamaica, landed at JFK just before noon on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The mother and newborn baby were attended to by medical personnel after landing to receive necessary care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In recordings from ATC.com, the pilot can be heard telling the controller they have a pregnant passenger who went into labor and requesting medical personnel at the gate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In another ATC recording, the ground controller asks if the baby is out yet and then suggests that the baby should be named Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In a statement, Caribbean Airlines said, &#8220;The airline commends the professionalism and measured response of its crew, who managed the situation in accordance with established procedures, ensuring the safety and comfort of all onboard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The airline said no emergency was declared during the flight.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"File image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/18847968_040626-wabc-adobestock-caribbean-airlines-file-img.jpg\"\/><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WABC-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JAMAICA, Queens (WABC) &#8212; A passenger on a Caribbean Airlines flight went into labor and gave birth as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[75358,9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-187901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-75358","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-city-news","13":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}