B737 flight crew reported receiving a GPWS terrain alert on a night visual approach to skbo when the...

Narrative:

On perfectly clear night with airport and runway already in sight we were cleared to descend to 12;000 ft and cleared for ILS 13L. Pilot not flying set 12;000 in MCP and I verified the altitude. I verified VNAV and LNAV and then verified with the pilot not flying that 12;000 was in the FMC on legs page at bog so we were protected and cleared to set the FAF altitude of 10;000 since we were cleared for the approach. So the pilot not flying set 10;000 and I verified it. A minute or so later ATC asked what our indicated speed was and we reported 285kts. ATC asked if we could hold that speed to 8 miles prior to bog. I told the pilot not flying that we could and they then gave us that clearance. To manage the speed I decided to use level change and selected it and verbalized it. I got fixated on handling the speed and focused on how I was going to manage that and did not change the MCP altitude back to 12;000 for prior to bog. With the runway in sight I was fixated on looking out at the runway and looking at where I was from bog VOR and never looked at the MCP altitude. As we were inside of 8 DME from bog I reduced the MCP speed to min flaps speed to setup the slow down for the approach still focused more outside. Just before the GPWS gave a terrain pull up command I had recognized our altitude which was around 10;600 and that we were about 1 miles outside of bog VOR. I turned off the autopilot and began an immediate climb back up to 12;000. Runway remained in sight entire time except as I raised the nose up for the climb. Pilot not flying reported to ATC that we had received GPWS and were climbing. ATC said to climb to 12;000 ft. Leveled at 12;000 ft just past bog VOR and then proceeded with the approach to a landing on 13L.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: B737 flight crew reported receiving a GPWS terrain alert on a night visual approach to SKBO when the pilot flying was using level change and the MCP altitude was inappropriately set.

Narrative: On perfectly clear night with airport and runway already in sight we were cleared to descend to 12;000 ft and cleared for ILS 13L. Pilot not flying set 12;000 in MCP and I verified the altitude. I verified VNAV and LNAV and then verified with the pilot not flying that 12;000 was in the FMC on legs page at BOG so we were protected and cleared to set the FAF altitude of 10;000 since we were cleared for the approach. So the pilot not flying set 10;000 and I verified it. A minute or so later ATC asked what our indicated speed was and we reported 285kts. ATC asked if we could hold that speed to 8 miles prior to BOG. I told the pilot not flying that we could and they then gave us that clearance. To manage the speed I decided to use level change and selected it and verbalized it. I got fixated on handling the speed and focused on how I was going to manage that and did not change the MCP altitude back to 12;000 for prior to BOG. With the runway in sight I was fixated on looking out at the runway and looking at where I was from BOG VOR and never looked at the MCP altitude. As we were inside of 8 DME from BOG I reduced the MCP speed to Min Flaps speed to setup the slow down for the approach still focused more outside. Just before the GPWS gave a terrain pull up command I had recognized our altitude which was around 10;600 and that we were about 1 miles outside of BOG VOR. I turned off the autopilot and began an immediate climb back up to 12;000. Runway remained in sight entire time except as I raised the nose up for the climb. Pilot not flying reported to ATC that we had received GPWS and were climbing. ATC said to climb to 12;000 ft. Leveled at 12;000 ft just past BOG VOR and then proceeded with the approach to a landing on 13L.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1227449
Time
Date	201412
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	SKBO.Airport
State Reference	FO
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B737 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Final Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Autoflight System
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 250 Flight Crew Total 16500 Flight Crew Type 13000
Person 2
Function	First Officer Pilot Not Flying
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 148 Flight Crew Total 7000 Flight Crew Type 490
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Altitude Crossing Restriction Not Met Deviation - Altitude Overshoot Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT

B737 flight crew reported receiving a GPWS terrain alert on a night visual approach to skbo when the pilot flying was using level change and the MCP altitude was inappropriately set.