Neymar Júnior, striker for the Brazilian national team and PSG, thanked his followers for the messages of support after the scare he suffered on Tuesday when the plane that was transporting him back to Brazil made a precautionary landing in the city of Boa Vista.
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“I’m going to thank you for all the messages, but everything is fine and we’re already going home. It was just a scare,” Neymar said in a video posted on his Instagram profile inside a plane, although without specifying if it was the same aircraft or was it another.
Shortly before Neymar’s statement to his followers, his press office issued a statement informing that all the passengers and crew members of the aircraft were well in the capital of the Amazonian state of Roraima, which borders Venezuela.
Emergency landing as a precaution
“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 footballer’s advice.
Private plane manufactured in 2008
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 the information, was traveling with his girlfriend Bruna Biancardi, his sister Rafaella and some friends, with 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, in the coast of the state of Rio de Janeiro.