What nationality is a child born on a plane?

Have you ever wondered, if a baby was born in the sky, which country would that baby bear?

There are quite a number of cases where a pregnant woman was born on a plane. One of them was Debbie Owen, who gave birth to a lovely daughter while traveling from Ghana to London. Although the baby girl Shona was born 6 weeks prematurely and was "born in the sky" but fortunately she was still healthy. Half an hour later, the plane landed in Gatwick and brought Debbie Owen and Shona to the hospital for care.

It is interesting to note that Shona's passport shows the location of her birthplace "on the plane at a height of more than 9,000 meters" and later changed to "born at sea" - the terrain she gave birth to. the plane is flying by.

Returning to the original question, in order to answer this issue, let's derive from an old rule in international law called 'Cuius est solum, eius est usque ad coelom et ad inferos' meaning 'Anyone who owns the land will possess the path from hell to heaven through that land'.

If you travel in pregnancy .

. you are a US citizen and take a German flight to Maldives island .

. you gave birth to a baby on a plane in Pakistan airspace .

However, this rule was no longer suitable with the dizzying development and development of hot air balloons, planes, satellites .

Gradually, every country declared its own heavenly territory with different and inconsistent numbers: 69km -159km.

. what country is the baby?

Even in 1976, eight countries in the equator area signed the Bogota declaration together. Accordingly, this statement will unify the aerial territory of these countries up to a height of 35.888km, equivalent to the height of geostationary satellites compared to the ground.

Thus, if following this rule, it is very difficult and impossible to determine the nationality of a 'heavenly baby'.

No one can afford to own the sky!

So if you can't take the nationality of the sky flying over, can you give the baby the nationality of the aircraft? In fact, this hypothesis is valid.

A typical example is that if you travel on a French ship floating in the ocean - which is not in any country, people assume you are in the mobile territory of France.

Therefore, it will not be surprising if you apply for a German citizenship for your daughter if the baby is born on a plane of this country.

But a new problem arises, is that whether the country that the baby is applying for citizenship agree with the last argument?

Reality proves that there is a country that agrees but there are also countries that oppose. Imagine if every day every country adopted this, what would happen?

Can a passport with nationality "sky" be possible in this case?

Will there be thousands and even millions of babies born every day on flights to the USA, England, France, Germany, Switzerland . with enough skin colors and ethnicities only to have citizenship? these developed countries.

So if a child is born in the sky, consider it a rare blessing. Instead of wondering and arguing when searching for any nationality for a child, give them a passport with the nationality of the sky so they can go everywhere.

The above article is only intended to be assumed by some airlines, which may refuse to transport pregnant women in certain pregnancy periods.

Specifically, pregnant women from about 32 weeks or more or have not determined the time of pregnancy or childbirth, have encountered problems in previous births .

In particular, many airlines absolutely refuse to transport pregnant women around 7 days before or after birth.

Because there is a change in the humidity, pressure, air more often in the airplane, the faster heart rate leads to hypertension or shortness of breath in pregnant women, so women need to consider and check Check health before booking tickets, and bring your pregnancy check-up book in case the airport staff asks for inspection.

* The article is based on the views of Robert Krulwich posted on NPR science page.

The title has been reset by repository.