Flight MH135 pulls emergency landing for Aussie in labour

Flight MH135 performed an emergency landing in Bali for an Australian woman who went into labour. – The Malaysian Insider pic, October 24, 2014.

Malaysia Airlines today did the country proud when flight MH135 made an emergency landing in Bali after an Australian passenger went into labour.

The Australian Associated Press (AAP) reported Bali's Ngurah Rai airport managers Angkasa Pura and Herry A. Y. Sikado as saying that flight MH135 from Kuala Lumpur to Brisbane requested a priority landing today as the pregnant woman was "about to give birth".

Herry said when the plane which had 178 passengers on board landed at 2.10pm (Malaysia time), the woman was rushed to Kasih Ibu Hospital.

AAP reported that MH135 departed for Brisbane at 4.14pm and the airport said flights were running to schedule.

The emergency landing is the first bit of good news for the flag carrier coping with the losses of flight MH370 and flight MH17.

Beijing-bound flight MH370 disappeared on March 8 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.

- TMI