For the love of God
Did a pilot with thousands of hours behind the stick actually say that, on a perfect day with unlimited visibility, no winds of any importance and no other distractions than having to actually fly the plane, "it was very difficult to perform a visual approach with a heavy airplane"? Perhaps, and that's a perhaps, with the amendment "at KSFO" unspoken, but still???
If so then someone needs a reality check. And so does anyone dreaming up any some sort of excuse for what happened. Yes, let the investigations continue. Let the lessons be learned.
But this plain and simple should not have happened. Period.
And if any professional pilot says otherwise then I'd much rather hitch a ride across the Atlantic on a container vessel than be seated in the back of a modern airliner flown by a child of the magenta line.