BOAC:
Folks - even if 411A doesn't know his own circling area
, it matters not for this crash. Whether they were using a TERPS area or a PansOps circling area is TOTALLY irrelevant as they were way outside both.
I rather strongly disagree. Part of assessing an accident is to learn all that is relevant to preventing a repeat. In this case a close look at the vast differences in protected airspace between FAA TERPs and ICAO PANS-OPS is relevant. Some people did learn from the China Air crash how significantly less safe TERPs is than PANS-OPS when it comes to CTL.
I believe a competent, proficient crew that has good local knowledge of OPRN can safely circle to land, but perhaps at 1,000 feet, afe, rather than the authorized 842 feet.