What Nationality Are You If..

Wattle

you were born on a plane? Like if I had been born on a plane over Turkish airspace would I then be Turkish?

Similarly with space tourism not so far away if you were born in space does that make you technically an Alien?

BillyMitchel

Sweet mother of Jesus.

Are you for real?

Frosty McSnowballs

You legally become property of the airline.

Ziphius

You can inherit nationality from your parents. Plenty of Irish people weren't born in Ireland.

wazky

You are now the captains property, his personal cabin boy from then on.

Seachmall

You have no fixed nationality. You are internationally recognised as a child of the sky and are given free pass through all nations. Where you you make your home is entirely up to you for it is understood you are not a regular passenger through life but a ghost in the wind...

PizzamanIRL

You become Airish.

dd972

I'd say it would be your parents even though you might be legally entitled to the airspace one in some cases.

BillyMitchel

It means you are Michael O Learlys bastard child and he'd sell you for three fiddy before tax.

glass_onion

http://people.howstuffworks.com/air-birth.htm

Almost every country in the world, as well as the United Nations, has procedures and recommendations for how to properly classify the geographic details of an in-air birth. The United Nations considers a child born in-flight to have been born in the airplane's registered country. Some countries point to the city where the child first disembarked the plane as the place of birth, and to the airplane's registered country as the place of citizenship. Of course, citizenship and birthplace are two different topics -- citizenship is typically a larger issue and may require some paperwork, while writing a child's birthplace on a birth certificate is often a less legally significant consideration.
For simplicity's sake, we'll focus here on U.S. documentation procedures, which vary from state to state and even from county to county. The state of Texas offers excellent details on how to document an in-air birth on a plane bound for Texas, even if the birth takes place over, say, Australia. Using a Texas birth certificate, you fill in the county and city of birth with the county and city where the child was first removed from the plane, and you should include a citation of where the birth shows up in the aircraft's flight log. For the location of the structure where the birth occurred (which is typically the city and county of a hospital), the county should be "In flight," and the city should be the name and flight number of the aircraft and the latitude and longitude coordinates of the point over which the child entered the world.
Filing the physical birth certificate is another area that gets complicated when the birth is at high altitude. According to U.S. law, if you were looking for the birth certificate for a child born on a U.S.-registered plane (or ship), you'd have to figure out if the vessel was heading away from the United States or toward it when the birth occurred. For an outbound flight, you'd likely find the birth certificate stored at (or accessible through) the U.S. State Department. If the flight was inbound and landed somewhere in the United States after the birth, you would contact the county where the plane landed to find the record.
Considerations of citizenship, like birthplace, vary depending on which governing body you contact for an answer. U.S. authorities would tell you that if a child's parents are both citizens of the United States and at least one parent has resided in the United States before the child's birth, the child is automatically a U.S. citizen regardless of the altitude of the birth. The same applies to a case in which one parent is a U.S. national and the other is a U.S. citizen who lived in the United States for at least a year before the birth. Many countries also grant automatic citizenship to a child born on a vessel that is registered to that country, so it's likely that an in-air birth could result in dual citizenship.

COYVB

dd972 wrote: »

I'd say it would be your parents even though you might be legally entitled to the airspace one in some cases.

I think most countries now don't consider you a national if you're born there to non resident/citizen parents

PizzamanIRL

Sure you can't get on a plane if you're that pregnant.

MRnotlob606

you must join the mile high club and suck the pilots gilly gooleys for eternity.

Omackeral

If it's a Turkish airline then it's in your best interest to establish if you're Asian or not when you're born and that depends where you are on the plane tbh. If you're in the cockpit, you're Asian. If you're in your seat, you're Asian. But if you're in the bathroom...

You're a-peein'

Lawrence1895

Isn't it important, which club the pilot of the aircraft follows? Some of Istanbul's clubs are on the Asian side of the Bosporus, others on the European side

Mariasofia

MRnotlob606 wrote: »

you must join the mile high club and suck the pilots gilly gooleys for eternity.

Good to know that this is a fact. I thought when I disclosed this info at interview, that the pilot was having me on...... :-D

Banjo String

wazky wrote: »

his personal cabin boy from then on.

Roger?

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

When I was younger than I am now I used to read up all about the football over in the England, I came across Mr. Jamie Redknapp and read he was born at Barton on Sea, which to me, obviously meant he was born on a sea called Barton aboard a ship...obviously...

Wattle

Ok so it could be: Nationality: Irish. Place Of Birth: The Planet Krypton.

Wattle

Seachmall wrote: »

You have no fixed nationality. You are internationally recognised as a child of the sky and are given free pass through all nations. Where you you make your home is entirely up to you for it is understood you are not a regular passenger through life but a ghost in the wind...

I think I like this one the best but who would I cheer for at the World Cup?

robertxxx

What nationality would you be if you were born on the international space station?

This is a very good topic.

mattjack

robertxxx wrote: »

What nationality would you be if you were born on the international space station?

This is a very good topic.

Its a very good topic indeed.
If you were born on an iceberg , would you be an Iceberger ?

Eeden

Probably a "non-national". We seem to have a huge number of them here in Ireland. It's obviously much more common than you would think!

feargale

Wattle wrote: »

you were born on a plane? Like if I had been born on a plane over Turkish airspace would I then be Turkish?

Similarly with space tourism not so far away if you were born in space does that make you technically an Alien?

The Dublin-born Duke of Wellington said that not everything born in a stable is an ass. Likewise, you could claim that not everyone born in space is spaced out. But how many, on reading this thread, would believe you?

stefan idiot jones

What nationality is the guy who sung 'I was born under a bad sign' ?