Obviously, you've never operated in an airline environment.......... There is a lot going on, and you do the same thing numerous times a day and they were only human. Sometimes you think you see what you expect to see, and it isn't there......

Having been to several airports with layouts similar to this one, I can say with no hesitation that it would be easy to do........... The depature end of 17/12R in HOU comes to mind, and the same thing has happened there a bunch of times, only there was enough runway to get airborne and clear the hangars on the other end.