Two doctors from Atlanta hospitals successfully delivered a baby on a Delta Air Lines flight this week, airline and hospital officials said.
Flight 131, with 192 passengers was airborne from Munich, Germany to Atlanta on Wednesday when a woman about 32 to 36 weeks pregnant went into premature labor somewhere over Washington, DC. The flight made an emergency stopover in Charlotte, NC.
Dr. Robert Vincent, a pediatric cardiologist with Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and an adult cardiologist from Savannah, Ga. who The Savannah Morning News identified as Dr. Dieter K. Gunkel used medical equipment on the plane to resuscitate the child, who had turned blue with no heart rate.
The baby later was listed in good condition at a neonatal intensive care unit in Charlotte, said Jason Rollins, spokesman for the Atlanta-based pediatric hospital.
After the stopover in Charlotte, the flight continued to Atlanta, Talton said.
(AP)
