{"id":9920,"date":"2018-06-18T20:22:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T02:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=9920"},"modified":"2018-06-18T20:22:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T02:22:22","slug":"world-cup-2018","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/world-cup-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2018: Saudi Arabia National team&#8217;s plane catches fire in midair in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"YDC-Side\" class=\"YDC-Side Pos(a) Pos(r)--md Pos(r)--sm W(1\/1)--sm W(1\/4) W(1\/1)--md ie-7_Mstart(-310px)\">\n<div class=\"sticky-outer-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"sticky-inner-wrapper\">\n<div id=\"YDC-Side-Stack\" class=\"YDC-Side-Stack Z(1) Pos(r) Bxz(bb) Fl(end) Fl(n)--sm Fl(n)--md M(a)--sm M(a)--md Maw(340px) Maw(640px)--sm Maw(640px)--md P(20px) Pb(0)--md Pb(0)--sm W(1\/1)\">\n<div class=\"M(a) W(a)--sm W(0) W(a)--md\">\n<div class=\"Pos(r) Start(-150px) Start(a)--sm Start(a)--md W(a)--sm W(300px) W(a)--md\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"mrt-node-SideTop-0-HeadComponentTitle\">\n<div id=\"SideTop-0-HeadComponentTitle-Proxy\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"YDC-Col1\" class=\"YDC-Col1 Bxz(bb) Mstart(0)--sm Mstart(0)--md Mstart(33.3%) P(20px) W(1\/1)--sm W(1\/1)--md ie-7_W(45%)\">\n<div id=\"YDC-Col1-Stack\" class=\"YDC-Col1-Stack Pos(r) M(a) Maw(600px) Maw(800px)--lg Mih(650px) Mih(0)--sm\">\n<div id=\"Main\" role=\"content\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"mrt-node-Col1-0-ContentCanvas\">\n<div id=\"Col1-0-ContentCanvas-Proxy\">\n<div id=\"Col1-0-ContentCanvas\" class=\"content-canvas Bgc(#fff) Pos(r)\">\n<article>\n<figure class=\"canvas-image Mx(a) canvas-atom Mt(0) Mt(20px)--sm Mb(24px) Mb(22px)--sm\">The Saudi Arabian national team\u2019s rough start to <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/soccer\/world-cup\/\">World Cup<\/a> continued on Tuesday, as the team\u2019s plane caught fire in midair. Flames were spotted coming out of the engine of the Russian Airlines Airbus that was carrying the Saudi team to Rostov, where it is set to face Uruguay on Wednesday.<\/figure>\n<div class=\"canvas-body Wow(bw) Cl(start) Mb(20px) Fz(15px) Lh(1.6) C($c-fuji-grey-l) Ff($ff-secondary) D(i)\">\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">Thankfully, the plane landed safely at Rostov-on-Don Airport and no one was harmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">The Saudi Football Association issued a statement saying that\u00a0\u201cThe Saudi Football Federation wishes to reassure everyone about the safety of all the members of the mission of the national team after a minor technical malfunction in an engine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">The statement was followed up by a tweet from the federation\u2019s official Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9922\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/b5c9328706ce172e265565858ff3c9f7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/b5c9328706ce172e265565858ff3c9f7.jpg 616w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/b5c9328706ce172e265565858ff3c9f7-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/b5c9328706ce172e265565858ff3c9f7-768x561.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/b5c9328706ce172e265565858ff3c9f7-1024x748.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/b5c9328706ce172e265565858ff3c9f7-100x73.jpg 100w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/b5c9328706ce172e265565858ff3c9f7-969x708.jpg 969w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/b5c9328706ce172e265565858ff3c9f7-1150x840.jpg 1150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"canvas-tweet canvas-atom Ov(a) W(100%)\">\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--edge EmbeddedTweet--mediaForward media-forward js-clickToOpenTarget js-tweetIdInfo tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent\" lang=\"en\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"Tweet h-entry js-tweetIdInfo subject expanded\" cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SaudiNT_EN\/status\/1008804376570458113\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-body e-entry-content\">\n<p class=\"Tweet-text e-entry-title\" dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">According to the Saudi Arabian Football Federation, all the Saudi national team players have arrived safely in Rostov-on-Don this afternoon to play against Uruguay, and currently are staying in their residence, and that the fire was merely an accident.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tweet-InformationCircle--top tweet-InformationCircle--topEdge tweet-InformationCircle\">While the incident was alarming,\u00a0to say the least, just watch the video in the below tweet, it seems no one onboard the Airbus A319-100 was hurt. 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Flames were spotted coming out of the engine of the Russian Airlines Airbus that was carrying the Saudi team to Rostov, where it is set to face Uruguay on Wednesday. Thankfully, the plane landed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[321,323],"class_list":["post-9920","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-sports","news-category-top-news","entry","has-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>World Cup 2018: Saudi Arabia National team&#039;s plane catches fire in midair in Russia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"World Cup 2018: Saudi Arabia National team&#039;s plane catches fire in midair in Russia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/world-cup-2018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta 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