Air Force crew helps Afghan woman deliver healthy baby girl on flight to freedom

A U.S. Air Force crew on an evacuation flight out of Kabul this week helped save hundreds of lives – and delivered a new one before touching down safely at a coalition airbase.

"The hard part, she did by herself," she said of the Afghan woman whose healthy newborn daughter arrived minutes before landing. "The baby was perfect. [She] was small, a little bit small, definitely didn’t make full term, but came out crying – so she seemed to be doing well in this world." While working on another patient who had passed out in the rear of the plane, she said she was alerted to another issue at the front, in the restroom.