A Canadian doctor helped to deliver a baby mid-flight, at 35,000 feet in the air

Last month, a Qatar Airways jet landed with an extra passenger on board — a baby who was delivered by a Canadian doctor mid-flight.

It came as a big surprise to Canadian Dr. Aisha Khatib, who didn’t have ‘assist with a delivery’ on her flight plans that day.

"I was not expecting a woman delivering a baby,” she said.

Khatib, who happens to specialize in travel medicine and, of all things, health on airplanes, was on her way to Uganda on a flight that had just left Doha last month, when she heard a call come over the P.A. system.

“About an hour into the flight, they announced, ‘is there a doctor on board?’" Khatib said.