A 33-year-old woman gave birth to a baby girl on a flight bound to New York from Jordan.
A spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says a nurse and doctor on the flight helped deliver the baby.
Vera Jaber, a 32-year-old Jordanian, gave birth to the 6-pound, 5-ounce girl with nearly three hours left to fly before arriving at JFK airport, said Port Authority Spokesman Joe Pentangelo.
The birth happened over the Atlantic aboard Royal Jordanian Flight J261 at around 5 p.m. Tuesday.
Mother and baby were taken to Jamaica Hospital in Queens after the aircraft landed at John F. Kennedy Airport around 7:30 p.m.
Both appeared in good health though it was unclear how far along Jaber was in her pregnancy.
Pentangelo says the woman is a citizen of Jordan and was traveling alone.
This isn't the first time a woman has given birth aboard a flight in recent months.
Just this past December, a Southwest Airlines flight from San Francisco to Phoenix had to make an emergency landing after a woman went into a labor and gave birth to a baby just minutes after takeoff.
The flight was diverted to Los Angeles International Airport after the heavily pregnant mother began having contractions at 10,000 feet.
An emergency room nurse and a doctor who happened to be aboard the flight delivered the child - with the help of a very rattled flight attendant.
There were 111 people aboard the plane at the time.
