Originally Posted by
stabapch
With only the fwd exits usable, the large death toll was most likely a result of passenger congestion due to grabbing luggage, which is very unfortunate, but this happens everywhere and like others have said this should be considered a criminal act.
Several other scenarios just as likely, like animals and baggage blocking aisle egress, electronics cords snagging people, confusing, wrong or conflicting orders given by FAs, non-able bodied persons seated where they blocked others. Not that the luggage isn't a factor and maybe it is the biggest factor, but there's a hell of a lot more that could have been going on and we just don't know.
Hopefully if it happened in the US, at least the families of the dead would have civil suits against the living that took baggage, criminal charges would be better, but barring that...