749 connie, I doubt if they even had the radar on going into Cali that night. I landed at Panama City with no moon that night and skies were clear. Bogota had the same R designator as Cali and they changed their landing to land south. Neither pilot was paying attention when the 757 went from a south to east heading.
I landed at Cali dozens of times after the crash and they offered me the same short cut to land south and declined out of respect to them accepting it and crashing into the ridge. Yes, they made a big mistake but the computer chose the nearest R and it happened to be Bogota. Unfortunately Botota was on the other side of a mountain range. Cali is a very safe easy airport with a full ILS. They were late and trying to make up time.