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PASSENGER HAS BABY ON AIRPLANE, NAMES INFANT AFTER FLIGHT ATTENDANT
Citizenship Questions Arise After Child is Born Mid-Flight
By Daniel Distant , Christian Post Reporter
January 14, 2013|10:30 am
A passenger has a baby while miles over Armenia: which country will
the baby claim citizenship in? That's the question that has to be
answered for Armina Babayan Saturday, who was flying to Zvartnots
International Airport from Siberia while with child.
The passenger had her baby, a boy, about two hours before the plane
landed in Yerevan, Armenia, the country's capital. The Armavia
Airlines flight attendants understood that Babayan was expecting,
but because she had claimed to be 6-and-a-half months pregnant,
no one thought she would go into labor while aboard the plane.
Fortunately, once the attendants realized the 31-year-old woman was
going into labor, Asmik Gevondyan helped organize everyone to help
with the delivery.
"All of our crew helped to deliver the baby," the attendant told the
Associated Press.
The new mother was so grateful for the aircraft crew's help that she
named her child after the flight attendant: little Asmik was born,
and no complications with the birth were reported.
Despite the happy news, there is some debate as to where the infant
will claim citizenship. Because it was born on the plane and not on
the ground, it could be a citizen of several countries, according to
varying sets of rules.
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For the United Nations, they consider a baby born while the mother
is aboard an airplane to "have been born in the airplane's registered
country," according to HowStuffWorks. In other cases, when the child
first disembarks, he or she is a citizen of that city and country.
When another mother bore her child on a flight from the Phillipines
to the United States last year, the question was raised again. Aida
Alamillo was headed to Massachusetts when she went into labor for 15
minutes and had Kevin, a baby boy. In that case, because he was born
in international waters and not in United States airspace, the child
could not immediately be made a U.S. citizen.
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Citizenship Questions Arise After Child is Born Mid-Flight
By Daniel Distant , Christian Post Reporter
January 14, 2013|10:30 am
A passenger has a baby while miles over Armenia: which country will
the baby claim citizenship in? That's the question that has to be
answered for Armina Babayan Saturday, who was flying to Zvartnots
International Airport from Siberia while with child.
The passenger had her baby, a boy, about two hours before the plane
landed in Yerevan, Armenia, the country's capital. The Armavia
Airlines flight attendants understood that Babayan was expecting,
but because she had claimed to be 6-and-a-half months pregnant,
no one thought she would go into labor while aboard the plane.
Fortunately, once the attendants realized the 31-year-old woman was
going into labor, Asmik Gevondyan helped organize everyone to help
with the delivery.
"All of our crew helped to deliver the baby," the attendant told the
Associated Press.
The new mother was so grateful for the aircraft crew's help that she
named her child after the flight attendant: little Asmik was born,
and no complications with the birth were reported.
Despite the happy news, there is some debate as to where the infant
will claim citizenship. Because it was born on the plane and not on
the ground, it could be a citizen of several countries, according to
varying sets of rules.
Follow us
For the United Nations, they consider a baby born while the mother
is aboard an airplane to "have been born in the airplane's registered
country," according to HowStuffWorks. In other cases, when the child
first disembarks, he or she is a citizen of that city and country.
When another mother bore her child on a flight from the Phillipines
to the United States last year, the question was raised again. Aida
Alamillo was headed to Massachusetts when she went into labor for 15
minutes and had Kevin, a baby boy. In that case, because he was born
in international waters and not in United States airspace, the child
could not immediately be made a U.S. citizen.
Read more at
http://global.christianpost.com/news/passenger-has-baby-on-airplane-names-infant-after-flight-attendant-88226/#0xYrqMpwZq6kPFt7.99