The same thing happened to
Porsche's previous supercar, the 959. In 1987 Porsche refused to submit 4 US spec. 959s for crash testing. Therefore none of the 30 cars designated for the US market were permitted into the US. Most of these cars were scrapped, some were returned to Europe for owners who wanted to use them outside the US. But this was a truly limited production model under the then FIA Group B homologation rules, where 200 street cars were built. By the way, from only 2850 cc and 450 bhp that car had performance to match the Carrera GT, with only a 10 mph lower top speed (197 mph) and 0-60 mph in 3,7 seconds. But they didn't have to worry about airbags back then.
Surely if there was a bigger market for the Carrera GT in the US, Porsche would have modified the airbag system. If you assume Porsche's profit per car to be 10-15% of selling price they could go a long way to fix it if they had buyers. If it cost $25,000 per car to fix and they had buyers waiting they would do it. Still it is sad if they actually do scrap them.
