Woman adopts baby from pregnant stranger she met on a plane

Temple Phipps and Samantha Snipes' paths crossed by chance on a flight

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(Image credit: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty)

A US woman has revealed how she ended up adopting a baby after a chance encounter with a pregnant woman on a plane.

Temple Phipps, from North Carolina, was desperate for a child and looking into fostering when she was placed next to Samantha Snipes on a Delta Airlines flight from Atlanta to Raleigh in September 2016.

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