Aer Lingus ‘arrival’ reunited with crew who delivered him

Aer Lingus never experienced an arrival like the one that occurred on June 11, 1975, when Patrick Loureiro was born on board a charter flight from Mozambique to Lisbon.

The new arrival appeared three hours after takeoff from Beira in Mozambique on board the 747 St Patrick, a charter flight operated by Aer Lingus for the Portuguese airline TAP with an Irish crew.

A qualified nurse, air hostess Jackie Ryan and passenger Dr Antonio Fachada took the baby’s mother Maria Loureiro into the first-class lounge upstairs which they had converted into an emergency maternity unit.