BALTIMORE — Baltimore Ravens tight finish Mark Andrews helped a girl who was having a mid-flight emergency on a Southwest Airways flight from Baltimore to Phoenix, Arizona, on Thursday morning, in response to the Ravens.
In a press release to WJZ, the Ravens confirmed that it was Andrews on the airplane and included a quote from Andrews: “Along with the fast-acting flight attendants, the actual heroes are the nurse and physician who additionally occurred to be on the airplane. Fortunately, they had been in a position to present the girl the fast help she wanted.”
The scary moments had been detailed in a thread posted on X, previously Twitter, by consumer Andrew Springs (@NaturalSprings).
WJZ spoke with Springs in a Zoom interview on Thursday.
“As soon as this occurred,” Baltimore native Andrew Springs stated. “It was in the course of the airplane. All people was alert.”
Springs, a Baltimore native, was additionally on the flight. He was sitting a seat away from Mark Andrews.
He informed WJZ {that a} lady sitting in entrance of them began shedding consciousness.
“I hear the whole lot,” Springs stated. “I heard how low her coronary heart price was. We’re speaking 35-40 beats a minute. Her pulse was extraordinarily weak at one level she wanted auxiliary oxygen.”
A nurse and physician on the flight started serving to the girl, however then —
“Mark pipes up,” Springs stated. “Nicely, to begin with, I did not even comprehend it was Mark. I had no thought he was sitting subsequent to me… he principally says, ‘Are you aware, may her blood sugar could possibly be low? I’ve a diabetic take a look at package.'”
Springs says Andrews confirmed the nurse and physician how one can use the package, which he carries with him as a result of he has Sort 1 diabetes.
Andrews could be very open about his prognosis.
Final summer time, WJZ interviewed him whereas he was internet hosting a camp for youngsters with the American Diabetes Affiliation.
“I am not scared to indicate people who I’m a Sort 1 diabetic,” Andrews stated. “I will put on it on my sleeve.”
Springs says quickly after Andrews stepped in, the girl was given some orange juice and began feeling higher.
“It was contact and go there,” Springs stated. “This might’ve been a really completely different story relying on the end result. Clearly, I am very relieved, very thrilled she’s okay.”
After the flight, Springs says Andrews left quietly.
He later put out a press release praising the nurse, physician and flight attendants who helped out.
Springs says he isn’t stunned that Andrews is a humble hero.
“Should you’ve been a Ravens fan for the final 5 years, you realize precisely who Mark Andrews is,” Springs stated. “So, you could possibly nearly see precisely what was going to occur in that second, that an unsung hero was going to step up.”
When that flight landed in Phoenix, medical personnel had been there to supply the girl additional help.
Andrews performed within the AFC Championship sport in opposition to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs on Jan. 28, two months after having surgical procedure on his left ankle.
Andrews’ return got here after he beat the chances of what was first regarded as a season-ending damage on Nov. 16, 2023.
