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Airline Report: A Baby and Babymama for KLM

Airlines will eat your soul in any number of ways, claiming your firstborn among them. It's too bad for K.L.M. (that's short for Karl Lorenz Martin) Banal that Dutch carrier KLM is no longer giving free lifetime air passes to babies born on its planes, because he happens to be one of those babies. Karl's mom, Betchel, was on a flight from Amsterdam to Manila when she went into premature labor. The plane was diverted to Kazakhstan, of all places, but without time to safely transfer his mom to the hospital, Karl popped out right there, into the aircarft cabin.

KLM, the airline, paid for K.L.M.'s care in Almaty, Kazakhstan, for a week, and a KLM staffer visited K.L.M. and his mama in the hospital every day.

Babies and drool and whatever else aside, we can only wonder what the experience was like for the rest of the plane's passengers. Imagine being a peaceful, Borat-loving stoner en route from Amsterdam to the next phase of your backpacking trip. After sleeping off last week's parties, you suddenly awake when your plane hits the ground in Kazakhstan. There had to be at least one person enjoying the hilarity of it all, no?

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