diff --git a/task-sdk/src/airflow/sdk/execution_time/secrets/execution_api.py b/task-sdk/src/airflow/sdk/execution_time/secrets/execution_api.py
index a44b23d06dc6d..87a8799c55c5e 100644
--- a/task-sdk/src/airflow/sdk/execution_time/secrets/execution_api.py
+++ b/task-sdk/src/airflow/sdk/execution_time/secrets/execution_api.py
@@ -66,25 +66,26 @@ def get_connection(self, conn_id: str, team_name: str | None = None) -> Connecti
             # Convert ExecutionAPI response to SDK Connection
             return _process_connection_result_conn(msg)
         except RuntimeError as e:
-            # TriggerCommsDecoder.send() uses async_to_sync internally, which raises RuntimeError
-            # when called within an async event loop. In greenback portal contexts (triggerer),
-            # we catch this and use greenback to call the async version instead.
-            if str(e).startswith("You cannot use AsyncToSync in the same thread as an async event loop"):
-                import asyncio
+            import asyncio
+            import greenback
 
-                import greenback
+            msg = str(e)
 
+            if (
+                "You cannot use AsyncToSync in the same thread as an async event loop" in msg
+                or "attached to a different loop" in msg
+            ):
                 task = asyncio.current_task()
-                if greenback.has_portal(task):
+                if task and greenback.has_portal(task):
                     import warnings
 
                     warnings.warn(
-                        "You should not use sync calls here -- use `await aget_connection` instead",
+                        "Sync connection access failed due to event loop mismatch. "
+                        "Falling back to async connection retrieval.",
                         stacklevel=2,
                     )
                     return greenback.await_(self.aget_connection(conn_id))
-            # Fall through to the general exception handler for other RuntimeErrors
-            return None
+            return None 
         except Exception:
             # If SUPERVISOR_COMMS fails for any reason, return None
             # to allow fallback to other backends