The plane that American artist Miley Cyrus took to Asunción was struck by lightning and forced to make an emergency landing at Ciudad del Este Airport before leaving Paraguay for Brazil.
“Our plane got caught in a big unexpected storm and was struck by lightning,” the singer wrote to her millions of followers on her Twitter account on Wednesday.
The interpreter of hits like “Angels Like You” confirmed that the crew traveling with her band, friends and family “are safe after an emergency landing”.
“Unfortunately we weren’t able to fly to Paraguay,” he added in a tweet thread, in which he included video of the storm blowing out the plane’s window and a photo of the impact it suffered.
Cyrus is one of the stars invited to the Asunción 2022 Festival, which had to cancel its first day on Tuesday night due to the strong storm that hit the Paraguay capital.
A source from Silvio Pettirossi International Airport, which serves Asunción, confirmed to Efe that the artist’s plane, which flew to that city, used Guaraní Airport in Ciudad del Este as an alternative, due to “bad weather”.
The ship headed to Sao Paulo in Brazil after resupply, added the spokesman, who did not go into details.
Rodrigo Nogues, director of the company G5Pro, organizer of Asunciónico 2022, told the broadcaster ABC that Cyrus was in Sao Paulo after “he had a problem with the plane”.
He did not immediately confirm whether the second day of this show will be suspended.
For this Thursday, the Asunciónico program includes concerts by Cyrus, as well as Argentinian Nicki Nicole, Puerto Rican Jhay Cortez and the Uruguayan band La Vela Puerca.
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