as to what the pilot meant, but controllers declared an emergency pre-emptively and cleared the plane to land immediately. The flight was later found to have had over two hours' worth of fuel remaining. Avianca has not retired the flight number. Avianca Flight 052 is, as of 2020, a flight from Lima to Bogotá. Avianca however, has changed the numbers for the now nonstop flights from El Dorado to JFK, designated as Avianca Flight AV244 and Flight AV020, operated by an Airbus A330 and an Airbus A319, respectively. In popular culture The events of Flight 052 were featured in "Missing over New York", a season-two (2005) episode of the Canadian TV series Mayday (called Air Emergency and Air Disasters in the U.S. and Air Crash Investigation in the UK and elsewhere around the world). The dramatization was broadcast with the title "Deadly Delay" in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Asia. The flight was also included in a Mayday season-eight (2009) Science of Disaster special titled "System Breakdown", which looked at the role of air traffic controllers in aviation disasters. Avianca Flight 052 was featured on the MSNBC network's Why Planes Crash series, in an episode titled "Human Error". The impact of cultural differences between the Colombian pilots and American air traffic controllers was discussed in Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers. Stock footage of the plane wreckage was used in the 2004 film The Day After Tomorrow. Survivor Nestor Zarate wrote a book about the flight, titled 20 minutos antes... 20 años después (20 Minutes Before... 20 Years Later). See also Impact of culture on aviation safety United Airlines Flight 173 LaMia Flight 2933 1977 Libyan Arab Airlines Tu-154 crash Notes References External links NTSB Final Report Accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 707 Airliner accidents and incidents caused by fuel exhaustion Airliner accidents and incidents caused by pilot error Airliner accidents and incidents in New York (state) Avianca accidents and incidents Aviation accidents and incidents caused by air traffic controller error Colombia–United States relations Oyster Bay (town), New York 1990 in New York (state) Aviation accidents and incidents in 1990 Aviation accidents and incidents in the United States in 1990 January 1990 events in the United States