Northwest Airlines Flight 59 left the Netherlands on Wednesday enroute to the United States with 124 passengers and arrived on New Year's Day with 125 passengers. The extra passenger was baby girl Sasha, who was born mid-air to an Ugandan woman.

Most of the passengers were from Europe and India. While the plane was cruising above Halifax in Canada, the flight crew roused the air passengers from their sleep asking if there was a doctor on board.

It turned out there were not only one, but two physicians, on the flight.

One was Dr. Natarajan Raman, a radiation oncologist from Minneapolis and the second was Dr. Paresh Thakkar, medical director of the Methuen Health & Rehabilitation Center in Massachusetts..

They helped the Ugandan woman seated in row 33, who was 8.5 months pregnant, deliver her baby. The baby was born weighing 6 ˝ pounds.

After the plane landed at Logan International Airport in Boston 10:30 a.m., the mother and her baby were whisked to the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Logan Airport spokesman Phil Orlandella said Sasha was declared a Canadian citizen for custom's purposes because she was born over Canada's airspace.