Originally Posted by
1201alarm
You forgot to see the main point: for 40 minutes KSFO ATC did not make any effort to land an IFR flight at KSFO while other aircraft who arrived later were landed.
OK, fair enough - but I have mentioned that in a previous post. Here, I was trying to think of the "WHYs" as you asked about earlier, rather than what did or did not happen.
However, I did say that ATC did not issue an EAT, which was part of the problem; If ATC could not reconfigure the approaches and calculate an EAT, then why not ?