Those passengers aren't to blame, regulators and aircraft designers are to blame. People are idiots in the aggregate, and reliably exhibit herd behavior counte

Those passengers aren't to blame, regulators and aircraft designers are to blame. People are idiots in the aggregate, and reliably exhibit herd behavior counterproductive to their survival. Aircraft design must account for this. There's something to the famous Feynman quote if we apply it in this context: "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. -- Richard P. Feynman In order to be certified aircraft must be completely evacuated during a test in 90 seconds. Here's such a test of the A380, Boeing etc. conduct tests in the same manner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIaovi1JWyY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIaovi1JWyY These tests have been widely critiqued as completely unrealistic, e.g. here: https://www.aerosociety.com/news/emergency-evacuation-time-for-a-rethink/ https://www.aerosociety.com/news/emergency-evacuation-time-f... Numerous real-world examples of emergency evacuations "in the wild" have shown that evacuations proceed nothing like what's shown in these tests. If aircraft manufacturers and regulators faced up to this we wouldn't have this problem. You'd get actual safety instead. E.g. design changes to aircraft mitigating the aisle blockages that do happen in these evacuations, but aren't accounted for in tests, more emergency exits etc. This is a recurring topic, e.g. in 2015 a BA flight in Las Vegas took 5 minutes to evacuate: http://www.flight.org/the-numbnut-passenger-evacuation-of-ba-flight-2276 http://www.flight.org/the-numbnut-passenger-evacuation-of-ba...