Similar to that 1991 accident at l.a.x.. it has a smaller profile and we were talking with darkness around. a lot of the lights are not that visible. the dash eight against a background of that runway may not have been visual to the crew. i am not going to start pointing fingers at this point because it could have been either the controller or the pilot who may not have known that they were clear to land or did not get clearance to land, which is standard procedure, but it seems to me that this collision somehow may have been avoidable. it s tough to see an airplane at night sitting on a runway. it blends in. it s such a tragedy. that is increasingly so because they were on their way to help in another tragedy, but what is really amazing about this, of course, is the evacuation of ....