PBL:
I wouldn't like to see this thread contaminated with discussion about a non-relevant accident, but it seems as if things might be going that way. Let me try to head it off by referring to some real work which was done on the Cali accident, and suggest that those of us who wish to discuss the nearly fifteen-year-old accident start a new thread, say in the "Safety" Forum?
If you would be willing to start such a thread, I would certainly participate.
I followed the accident very closely and wrote an article about it for the U.S. ALPA magazine.
I view the court's assessment as mostly a red herring to award damages. There is no doubt the database had some issue, as did (and still does) the simplistic naming of nav aids in many parts of the world.
But, had the Jeppesen chart in effect at the time been properly used along with situational awareness and Airmanship 101 it would have been a routine ending to the flight.
I was, after all, a VOR/DME arrival/IAP; not an RNAV procedure. And, Colombia was certainly not WGS84 compliant in 1995.