“It was just a scare,” said the Brazilian footballer for Paris Saint-Germain
The plane that was transporting the player back to Brazil made a “precautionary” landing in the city of Boa Vista
The forward of the Brazilian team and PSG Neymar Júnior thanked his followers for the messages of support after the “scare” that happened this Tuesday when the plane that was transporting him back to Brazil made a “precautionary” landing in the city of Boa Vista (north).
“I’m passing by to thank you for all the messages, but everything is fine and we are already going home. It was just a scare”Neymar said in a video posted on his Instagram profile inside a plane, although without specifying whether it was the same plane or another.
Shortly before Neymar’s statement to his followers, his press office issued a statement reporting that all passengers and crew members of the aircraft were “well” in the capital of the Amazonian state of Roraima, which borders Venezuela.
“Due to a small problem in the windshield of the NR Sports company plane, where the athlete Neymar Jr., his sister Rafaella Santos and Bruna Biancardi were, the pilot decided, as a precaution, to make an early landing in Boa Vista, until the problem can be resolved,” the press release said.
“We inform everyone that the passengers are fine, waiting to resume the trip”added the advice of the footballer.
The ‘ESPN Brasil’ channel, the first to report on the incident, indicated that the luxurious plane, a Cessna 680 Citation, which belongs to the firm Neymar Sport E Marketing, was manufactured in 2008 and has a market cost of 94 million reais (about 18.8 million dollars).
On social networks, photos of the player with fans and employees of the Boa Vista international airport circulated on Tuesday morning, which were published in different fan profiles and on the pages of groups of supporters of the French PSG attacker and the Brazilian team.
Neymar, according to information, was traveling with his girlfriend Bruna Biancardi, his sister Rafaella and some friendswith whom he spent a few days on vacation in Las Vegas and returned to Brazil, where he was expected this Tuesday at his beach house in Mangaratiba, on the coast of the state of Rio de Janeiro.