Saratoga wrote on Jul 9^th, 2013 at 3:19am:

LOLcakes wrote on Jul 9th, 2013 at 1:28am: Weston wrote on Jul 9th, 2013 at 12:19am: it was the pilot's first landing in the 777 Actually, it was his first landing in San Francisco and I think at that time the ILS and PAPI were inop too. "The Runway 28L glideslope system had been inoperative due to a long-term construction project, but the instrument landing system localizer and a precision approach path indicator (PAPI), a visual-based glideslope, were operational at the time of the accident, Hersman says." Ben

Hmm it seems I was mistaken...  :-[