Air-born baby
Monday 21st March 2011, 2:30PM GMT.
Amy White shows off a picture of son Xavier, inset, Aurigny’s first airborne birth. (Picture by Tom Tardif, 11125214)
WHEN Amy White was starting to prepare her birth plan she did not envisage delivering her baby on an Aurigny Trislander.
But when the 27-year-old was being transferred from Alderney, her son decided to make an entrance just five minutes into the flight, the airline’s first in-flight arrival in its 40-year history.
Mrs White, an Alderney resident who has two other children aged four-and-a-half and three-and-a-half, was due to be induced in two weeks’ time because her son was quite small.
He was due on 26 April.
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Are you going to call him G-Joey?
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surely someone will make a bad pun…
come on lets hear them…
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ah i see my post was just a smidgen too late
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At least it wasn’t BMI baby……..
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If it had been on Flybe it would have been a `Flybaby`.
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If it had been a Virgin baby we might have had another messiah on our hands
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Just goes to show that the pilot must have left a window open – and in flew a stork !
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LOL @ Martino. Your post reminded my of the old Caribbean hymn “He Came from the Glorious Kingdom”
Just replace Mary with Amy and we’re onto a winner!
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Glad you liked it Paul. I was hoping I hadn’t offended!!
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Not at all Martino old pal….on the contrary I was pondering whether your post was a tacit acceptance of the first virgin birth! ;-)
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I wouldn’t go quite that far Paul!
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Having recently learned of where Flybe and Aurigny sit in the league tables of bad airlines, did they issue a charge for an additional passenger?
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