Australian woman loses baby despite MH135 emergency landing in Bali

MALAYSIA — The baby of an Australian woman who went into labour aboard a Malaysia Airlines flight, forcing an emergency diversion to Bali, did not survive the premature birth, Indonesian doctors say.

Malaysia Airlines flight MH135 from Kuala Lumpur to Brisbane had to make an emergency landing in Denpasar, Bali as a pregnant woman on board was about to give birth.

The Australian Associated Press (AAP) reported Bali’s Ngurah Rai airport managers Mr Angkasa Pura and Mr Herry A Y Sikado as saying that the flight, which had 178 passengers on board, landed at 2.10pm (Malaysia time) and the woman was rushed to Kasih Ibu Hospital.

However the baby did not make it. “We estimate the baby was born 1 to 1.5 hours before we received her,” head of medical services at the Kasih Ibu hospital Diah Ratna Dewi told The Sydney Morning Herald.

AAP reported that MH135 resumed its flight to Brisbane at 4.14pm and the airport said flights were running on schedule.

Before the successful emergency landing, Malaysia Airlines was coping with the losses of flight MH370 and flight MH17. Beijing-bound flight MH370 disappeared on Mar 8 this year with 239 people on board after departing from Kuala Lumpur. Flight MH17, carrying 298 passengers, was shot down over east Ukraine on July 17, en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER