bubbers44:
AA965 was CFIT. There was no moon that night but visibility was fine. Their descent was controlled, they just decided to land to the south to save a few minutes and when they selected the R designater to start the approach they got the R for Bogota instead and turned east into the mountains. They couldn't see the terrain and crashed. For some reason neither pilot caught the mistake or turn.
As I said, AA965 made an essentially uncontrolled descent. I suppose I could have worded it better. Any time someone on an IFR flight plan grossly departs procedurally airspace while descending to the max, speed boards and all, is in what I considered an uncontrolled descent.
Granted, the AA965 resumed control of sorts just before impact.
In the instant case it appears the Lear crashed pretty much on the flight plan route. Whether the descent was initiated by the crew is still unknown to us at this time.