Caribbean Air­lines has con­firmed that one of its flights be­came an un­like­ly de­liv­ery room mid-air, af­ter a pas­sen­ger gave birth while en route from Ja­maica to New York, though the air­line in­sists no emer­gency was de­clared dur­ing the in­ci­dent.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports,flight BW005, a Boe­ing 737 Max 8 trav­el­ling from Kingston to New York on Sat­ur­day, was forced to pri­ori­tise a swift land­ing af­ter the woman went in­to labour at cruis­ing al­ti­tude. What be­gan as a rou­tine in­ter­na­tion­al flight quick­ly turned in­to a high-al­ti­tude birth, with crew step­ping in to man­age the sit­u­a­tion.

In a state­ment to Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, the air­line de­scribed the in­ci­dent as a “med­ical event” han­dled in ac­cor­dance with es­tab­lished pro­ce­dures.