It was an incredible moment for crew members and passengers of a Lufthansa flight, which took off from Colombian capital Bogota on 25 July with 191 passengers.

Headed for Germany’s Frankfurt, it landed unscheduled in Manchester with an extra passenger on board.

Desislava K, a 38-year-old Bulgaria-based woman, gave birth to a baby boy 39,000 feet above the North Atlantic, reports Hindustan Times.

As the mom-to-be started experiencing labour pain, the 13 crew members on board prepared to deliver the baby. And soon they found out that there were three doctors among the passengers.

‘The crew moved several passengers to seats in the front, and the rear part of the plane became an impromptu delivery room. The entire area was closed off with a privacy screen,’ Lufthansa said in a statement, issued on Friday.

The baby was named Nikolai after same name of one of the doctors, the statement said.

This was the 11th birth on a Lufthansa flight since 1965.

The airlines received praises—and invited a flurry of questions—on Twitter after announcing the news through its handle.

Earlier in June, a baby was born on India-based Jet Airways flight travelling from Dammam in Saudi Arabia to Kochi. Unlike Lufthansa, Jet Airways gifted the baby free plane tickets for life.