ELI5.Why are airplanes boarded front to back?

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Currently standing in terminal and the question arises, wouldn’t it make sense to load the back first? It seems inefficient to me waiting for everyone in the rows ahead to get seated when we could do it the other way around. I’m sure there’s a reason, but am genuinely curious. Thoughts?

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I was flying back from Prague to Belgium recently and when unboarding everybody up front got off first, and the people in the back got off last and slowly.

At some point the staff barred us from leaving the plane when up front, because we had to counter the weight of the people on the back. If we’d all walked off with a good number of people still in the rear of the plane, apparently the plane could’ve tipped backwards on its tail.

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