A Vietnam Airlines plane made an emergency landing at Da Nang International Airport in the central city of Da Nang on Wednesday afternoon so a Chinese baby who fell ill on the flight could be treated, the Vietnamese national flag carrier said the same day.

>> Vietnam plane makes emergency landing as S. Korean passenger faints Flight VN1203, with 155 passengers on board, landed at the airport at 4:10 pm after a two-year-old girl with Chinese nationality came down with a high fever and suffered from convulsions. The plane, an Airbus A321, had left Noi Bai International Airport at 2:40 pm for the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho, but when it was 80 miles past Da Nang, the baby came sick. The flight chief pilot therefore decided to fly back to the Da Nang airport so that emergency treatment could be given to the baby, who was accompanied by her parents. A Vietnam Airlines representative at the airport helped the girl’s parents take her to a local hospital. The flight left Da Nang at 4:55 pm to continue its flight to Can Tho. According to the latest information from the hospital, the baby is able to breathe on her own and is still receiving treatment there. Several similar cases have recently happened to the carrier. On October 5, 2014, a Vietnam Airlines plane made an emergency landing in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, after a South Korean passenger, Lee J., passed out on board and needed emergency aid. The incident occurred when the plane was on the way from South Korea’s Busan to Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City. Due to the incident, the plane arrived at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in the Vietnamese city at 4:00 pm, three hours later than scheduled. Another case happened on September 29, 2014, when another Vietnam Airlines plane landed urgently at Henri Coanda Airport in the Romanian city of Bucharest after a passenger, Choi Y., 22, also a South Korean national, had difficulty breathing.

The flight made the emergency landing when it was flying from Frankfurt, Germany, to Hanoi. Because of the incident, the plane arrived in the Vietnamese capital about eight hours behind schedule.

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