Plane makes emergency return after a passenger on his way to rehab overdoses on heroin and anxiety pills

FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2007 file photo, JetBlue airplanes display their registration numbers along the windows at the rear of the aircraft at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. In order to locate thousands of planes in the United States that the agency lost track of, the FAA will begin canceling the registration certificates of all 357,000 aircraft and requiring owners to re-register. (AP Photo/Rick Maiman, File)

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A JetBlue plane departing from John F. Kennedy International Airport was forced to make an emergency return when a passenger overdosed on heroin and anxiety pills. The 24-year-old Long Island man, whose identity has not been released, was on his way to a drub rehabilitation facility in Florida prior to the incident.

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Around 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday night, the plane was on the taxiway gearing up to take off when the man began foaming at the mouth and falling in and out of consciousness. According to officials, he was also having trouble breathing. The plane was then immediately brought back to a terminal, where Port Authority officers Eric Stern and Sean Pomerantz tended to the victim.

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Stern and Pomerantz administered giving the man a dose of Narcan, a drug that reverses the effects of an opiate overdose, which stabilized his breathing and vitals, potentially saving his life. Afterwards, the man was taken to a nearby hospital, where he is expected to recover.

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