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Weight repartition and balance is extremely important in an aircraft. If everyone moved to one end of the aircraft it could cause loss of control and crash
a change in weight distribution is cited as one of the reasons for the crash of this us cargo flight in afghanistan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Pushkin_Tu-104_crash happens more often than people know.