The same summer, there were two notable fuel emergencies declared by Avianca flights. The first happened in June when a flight declared a "minimum fuel situation" and landed with only ten minutes' worth of fuel left. The second happened in August when Avianca Flight 20 declared it had "only 15 minutes of fuel left". There was confusion as to what the pilot meant, but controllers declared an emergency preemptively and cleared the plane to land immediately. It was later revealed that the flight had over two hours' worth of fuel left.