Originally Posted by
MarcK
Even so, the suggested action might have been Divert to OAK. There is no guarantee of a landing at SFO if you can't do the approach in use.
That is another misunderstanding of how it works.
Once you declare Mayday, you decide what you do and the controller has to accomodate you. Other aircraft not on Mayday have then to step back.
However Lufthansa was too professional to provoke such a situation, despite bad show by the controller. Rightly so.