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An 18-Year-Old with No Experience Performed Operations in Control Tower at El Dorado Airport in Bogotá

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An 18-year-old, son of an air controller and without any experience, handled some operations from the control tower of Bogotá's El Dorado International Airport on July 21, which led the Colombian Civil Aeronautics (Aerocivil) to punish those responsible and ask the Prosecutor's Office for an investigation.According to Blu Radio this Monday, the director of Navigation Operations of the Aerocivil, Colonel Andrés Felipe Otero, there was "an unautho…
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An 18-year-old, son of an air controller and without any experience, handled some operations from the control tower of Bogotá's El Dorado International Airport on July 21, which led the Colombian Civil Aeronautics (Aerocivil) to punish those responsible and ask the Prosecutor's Office for an investigation.According to Blu Radio this Monday, the director of Navigation Operations of the Aerocivil, Colonel Andrés Felipe Otero, there was "an unautho…

The president of the Air Controllers Association explained that while the incident "did not involve a risk", it did constitute a reckless act.

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Civil Aeronautics. Photo: Taken by Valora Analitik. The Civil Aeronautics of Colombia (Aerocivil) reported that, through the Secretariat of Aeronautics Authority, temporarily suspended the aeronautical licenses of air traffic controllers involved in an air traffic control incident. This, following the event that occurred on 21 July at the Tower of Control of El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, where unauthorized personnel were allowed to …

An unusual and alarming event would have occurred on July 21st at the southern control tower of El Dorado airport in Bogotá, the country’s most important air terminal. According to the news, a young man as young as 18 years old would have been, for a few minutes, in front of air traffic control, without authorization ... The post They investigate unusual incident in El Dorado: 18 year old boy would have taken control of air traffic for a few min…

Unusual! Unexperienced young man handled air traffic in El Dorado as if it were a video game TuBarco News The son of a controller got into the tower and gave orders to real pilots. Noticias Bogotá. An unusual and alarming episode of negligence at El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá has called into question the air safety protocols in the country. On Monday, July 21, an 18-year-old son of an air controller from Medellín, managed to enter th…

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TuBarco Noticias broke the news in on Sunday, July 27, 2025.
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