NFL quarterback Tim Tebow might as well have been wearing a cape on a recent flight.
When a Phoenix-bound Delta flight encountered a medical emergency on Sunday, the last person anyone expected to rush to the distressed passenger’s side was a celebrity athlete.
“It was Tim Tebow, absolutely,” said a witness named Sonal, who wouldn’t give his last name to reporters.
What had been an uneventful and routine flight turned into a life or death situation, as an attendant announced a medical emergency and asked whether there were any medical professionals on board. An older passenger was reportedly having heart problems.
“I watched strangers from all over the world and every ethnicity come to the help of this man for over an hour!” wrote Richard V. Gotti in a post that has gone viral. “Whether it was chest compressions, starting an IV, helping breathe life into this man, or praying everyone helped!”
Tebow’s appearance surprised everyone. Sonal said the football player had been sitting in business class but walked toward the back of the plane to ask what he could do to help.
“He was helping, consoling the family,” he said.
Gotti added, “He met with the family as they cried on his shoulder! I watched Tim pray with the entire section of the plane for this man.”
A Delta spokesman confirmed that a medical emergency had been declared on the flight.
According to Gotti, the people helping the passenger weren’t able to get his pulse back until the plane landed in Phoenix…but thanks to a team effort quarterbacked by Tebow, the day was saved!
