The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvahe revealed this Friday that he had a mishap with an official plane that had to be lowered before takeoff “with fear that he will get caught”, within his visit to Belém to inaugurate works by the World Climate Summit (COP30), according to EFE.
The Chief of State of Brazil reported, in an interview with TV Liberal, that on Thursday the Brazilian Air Force (FAB) plane in which he intended to move A La Ilha do Marajó He presented a problem in the engine that forced him to change aircraft shortly before taking off with his team.
“I have to thank God because the problem could have happened in the air. Still on land, We had to get off the plane With fear that we caught and there we went to another, “said the progressive leader.
Lula maintained his agenda of public events without major consequences and said that, that night, he went to the Basilica of Our Lady of Nazareth, in Belém, to thank the Virgin of Nazareth.
It is It is not the first air setback suffered by the Brazilian head of state since his third term began, on January 1, 2023.
In 2024, When I returned from a trip to Mexicohis official plane, in which he was accompanied by a large delegation of ministers and parliamentarians, suffered technical problems and was spinning in the air until consuming the fuel and landing again in that country.
Lula is visiting Belém, capital of the state of Paraá, in full Brazilian Amazon, to inaugurate a series of works linked to the World Climate Summit (Cop30), which will begin next November.
The ruler reiterated that this will be the “Cop of the truth” Because it will serve to discover whether world leaders are committed or not to stop global warming.
In this sense, he insisted on the need for rich countries to pay the most disadvantaged to finance their energy transition.