Please return your seatbacks to their upright position, stow your tray tables, and prepare for takeoff… oh wait, we’re already landing and there’s a brand-new passenger joining the mile-high club of life. In a plot twist better than any in-flight movie, a Tennessee mom decided Delta’s landing gear wasn’t the only thing coming down in Portland. With two off-duty paramedics playing midwife, a shoelace standing in for medical equipment, and 153 passengers suddenly becoming witnesses to a miracle, Baby Brielle made her grand entrance just as the wheels kissed the runway. Talk about cutting it close!

Paramedics help passenger give birth just before Delta flight lands