Originally Posted by
procede
Either proper safety evaluations have been done and an accident like this every few years is considered acceptable and/or everyone just closed their eyes and hoped it would not happen to them (but to someone else first).
Alternatively, you impose (IATA) slot constraints to your congested airports, just like the rest of the world does.
I think that anyone who spends a few hours reading the rather large collection of runway incursion and near miss events that have accumulated in the past couple of decades of US aviation will be left with the feeling that we have been not just lucky but incredibly lucky.