Mum gives birth mid-flight on plane 30,000 feet in the air as passengers cheer

A plane had to make an emergency landing as a woman gave birth during the flight.

A flight from Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, to Miami, Florida, in the US, unexpectedly made a stopover in Cancun when a woman onboard gave birth.

The unknown woman from Nicaragua went into labour on Thursday, May 25 as the plane was in Mexican airspace.