text: LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southwest Airlines flight landed in Los Angeles with one more passenger than when it took off. 
   
   A passenger gave birth shortly after Flight 623 took off from San Francisco on Tuesday and the Phoenix-bound jet diverted to Los Angeles International Airport. 
   
   The woman was assisted by the flight crew and a doctor and nurse who were aboard, airline spokeswoman Emily Samuels said. She said hopefully the airline has a new customer for life. 
   
   Paramedics boarded the aircraft and the mother and newborn, whose names have not been released, were taken to a hospital in good condition, Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Erik Scott said. 
   
   The aircraft was taken out of service for cleaning and the other passengers went on to Phoenix aboard another plane, arriving more than two hours behind schedule. 
   
   Passenger Julie Dafoe said she and Kurt Reed were sitting next to the woman. 
   
   "One of the nurses that helped she said she was like walking around pacing in the airport so they were thinking she was having contractions," Dafoe told Phoenix TV station KTVK. 
   
   "All of a sudden I heard a baby cry like a gurgling sound, like a baby that had too much milk or whatever and I'm like 'There's no babies on this flight,'" Reed said. 
   
   Passengers said they had heard the call for a doctor, but nothing about what the medical emergency was. 
   
   "The captain announced congratulations for the arrival of this new baby boy," another passenger Aarti Shahani told KTVK. "So we all started applauding, but it was confusing because we thought someone was going to die not be born." ||||| A baby born on a plane mid-flight joined a very different kind of mile high club. 
   
   Southwest Airlines Flight 623 bound for Phoenix was diverted shortly after taking off from San Francisco on Tuesday when a pregnant passenger went into labor, the airline confirmed to ABC News. 
   
   But before the plane could make an emergency landing in Los Angeles, the baby was born with the help of a doctor and nurse who were on board. 
   
   "Never thought I'd experience that, yeah, everyone was saying the same thing. It was just amazing that that happened on a plane," pasenger Ely Alexander told ABC station KABC-TV in Los Angeles. 
   
   "No one freaked out, no, it was all very calm," Alexander said. "It was really amazing how calm it was and how many people came to help." 
   
   A team of medics met the plane when it did land in Los Angeles. 
   
   The airline did not make public the baby's gender. 
   
   The other 111 passengers on board flight 623 boarded another flight to Phoenix. 
   
   The identity of the mother has not yet been released, but she was transported to a hospital. 
   
   This isn't the first time a baby was born mid-air on a Southwest Airlines flight. 
   
   In 2009 a passenger gave birth to a baby boy while on a flight from Chicago to Salt Lake City. 
   
   Babies born on flights are usually given a birth certificate from the state in which their plane lands.
target: – A baby born yesterday probably has more frequent-flier miles than any other newborn alive. A Southwest Airlines flight bound for Phoenix from San Francisco made an emergency landing in LA not long after takeoff yesterday when a woman on board the plane went into labor and produced an addition to the passenger manifest, the AP reports. A Southwest spokeswoman says the flight crew, as well as a nurse and doctor on the flight, helped usher in the new neonatal nomad, and the unidentified mom and baby were whisked off to the hospital by paramedics when the plane landed and were said to be in good condition. If all follows the usual protocol, the baby will likely be given a birth certificate from California, the state in which the plane landed, ABC News reports. It was a somewhat confusing moment for some of the passengers. "All of a sudden I heard a baby cry like a gurgling sound, like a baby that had too much milk or whatever, and I'm like, 'There's no babies on this flight,'" a passenger who had been seated near the mother tells the AP. Another passenger experienced relief upon finding out what the in-air request for a doctor was all about: "The captain announced congratulations for the arrival of this new baby boy, so we all started applauding. … It was confusing because we thought someone was going to die, not be born." The other 111 passengers were redirected onto another plane to Phoenix, and the birthing plane was removed from service for cleaning. (Click to read about how a baby born to a Ugandan woman who resides in the US ended up a Canadian citizen after being born on a flight from Amsterdam to Boston.)