MOSCOW – Saudi Arabia’s official team plane caught fire in midair as they travelled to their next World Cup match on Sunday.
The plane was forced to make an emergency landing after catching fire from the 12-year-old jet’s engines as it approached Rostov airport – where the team will take on Uruguay on Wednesday.
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An official statement from the football association read, “Would like to reassure everyone that all the Saudi national team players are safe, after a technical failure in one of the airplane engines that has just landed in Rostov-on-Don airport, and now they´re heading to their residence safely”.
“The plane landed a few minutes ago at Rostov on Don Airport, and UNOMIG personnel is now safely heading to their residence,” it added.
The players who were shaken by the glitch, filmed themselves leaving the plane – a Russian Airlines Airbus A319-100 – shortly after landing.
They are hoping to redeem themselves after a humiliating 5-0 loss to hosts Russia last Thursday.
