My flight just announced that it will be pretty empty, and that it is important for everyone to sit in their assigned seats to keep the weight balanced. What would happen if everyone, on a full flight, moved to one side of the plane?

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My flight just announced that it will be pretty empty, and that it is important for everyone to sit in their assigned seats to keep the weight balanced. What would happen if everyone, on a full flight, moved to one side of the plane?

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One theory about what happened with Flight 93 on 9/11 is that when the passengers rushed the cockpit it unbalanced the plane, with the last audible words from the cockpit being that they needed to pull up.