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		leetrout on Dec 4, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US Visual Approaches: Lessons from the LH458 Incid... Whoa, slow down there. > The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has banned foreign pilots from making visual approaches to San Francisco airport runways 28 left and right. This was in 2013. My understanding is some foreign carriers took this into company SOP. https://www.pprune.org/fragrant-harbour/520332-faa-bans-visu...

pdonis on Dec 4, 2023 | [–]

> This was in 2013.

And it looks like it was temporary due to a glide slope indicator being out of service, and was supposed to go away in late August 2013.

inferiorhuman on Dec 4, 2023 | [–]

If memory serves that restriction was lifted in large part because Lufthansa complained.

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