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El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá will have no commercial flights from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm on July 20.

"Inaction is not an option," said John Kelly, head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in a warning to international airports.

The stars of this year's show are the F-16 “Fighting Falcon” jets brought by the United States and the skywriting “Smoke Squadron” of Brazil.

The violation, if confirmed through a full investigation, would impost a fine of more than $11,000 USD on Viva Colombia.

Airline improvement in recent years means more Colombians "now consider air travel their first choice when traveling," said Wingo CEO Catalina Bretón.

There were no injuries to any of the four crew on board, but one of El Dorado’s runways remained closed for roughly two hours.

Aerocivil is investigating how a suitcase containing cocaine — that the passenger says did not belong to him — came to be found on an Interjet aircraft.

The potential penalty for each airline could exceed $570,000 USD.

"No technical factor was part of the accident, everything involved human error," said Colonel Freddy Bonilla of Aerocivil.

A chartered plane carrying 81 people, including a Brazilian football team, crashed near José María Córdova International Airport in Colombia.