{"id":189050,"date":"2026-04-08T01:07:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T01:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189050\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T01:07:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T01:07:21","slug":"passenger-gives-birth-midair-on-flight-from-jamaica-to-new-york-city-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189050\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger gives birth midair on flight from Jamaica to New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/gettyimages-1213973715.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Caribbean Airlines Boeing 737-800 commercial aircraft as seen on final approach landing at New York JFK John F Kennedy International airport in NY, USA. The B737 airplane has the registration 9Y-TAB and paint on the tail of a hummingbird. Caribbean A <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">NEW YORK CITY &#8211; A pregnant woman boarded her flight to New York City this weekend as a party of one, but touched down on the tarmac as a family of two.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">A passenger gave birth midair during a Caribbean Airlines flight from Kingston, Jamaica to New York City on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The nearly 4-hour flight landed at JFK airport just before noon as pilots alerted air traffic controllers that they had welcomed a baby onboard!<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The airline says no emergency was declared during the flight, and the mother and newborn received medical care upon arrival.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The identities of the mother and baby have not been released.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">However, air traffic controllers had their own idea for a possible baby name with a nod to JFK airport.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">&#8220;Tell her she\u2019s got to name it Kennedy,&#8221; the controller said in audio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/26487603500869069\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">obtained by CBS News.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from this article was sourced from Caribbean Airlines and CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York City<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/lifestyle\/travel\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Travel<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Caribbean Airlines Boeing 737-800 commercial aircraft as seen on final approach landing at New York JFK John&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[232,9,24,55,54,12,56,63,956,618],"class_list":{"0":"post-189050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-lifestyle","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-city-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-travel","17":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189050","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=189050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}