BALTIMORE — Baltimore Ravens tight end Mark Andrews helped a woman who was having a mid-flight emergency on a Southwest Airlines flight from Baltimore to Phoenix, Arizona, on Thursday morning, according to the Ravens.
In a statement to WJZ, the Ravens confirmed that it was Andrews on the plane and included a quote from Andrews: “In addition to the fast-acting flight attendants, the real heroes are the nurse and doctor who also happened to be on the plane. Thankfully, they were able to provide the woman the quick assistance she needed.”
The scary moments were detailed in a thread posted on X, formerly Twitter, by user Andrew Springs (@NaturalSprings).
WJZ spoke with Springs in a Zoom interview on Thursday.
“Once this happened,” Baltimore native Andrew Springs said. “It was in the middle of the plane. Everybody was alert.”
Springs, a Baltimore native, was also on the flight. He was sitting a seat away from Mark Andrews.
He told WJZ that a woman sitting in front of them started losing consciousness.
“I hear everything,” Springs said. “I heard how low her heart rate was. We’re talking 35-40 beats a minute. Her pulse was extremely weak at one point she needed auxiliary oxygen.”
A nurse and doctor on the flight began helping the woman, but then
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