Swedish Airvan Accident
When the aircraft pitched down the jumpers, who were not restrained, would have fallen in a untidy human mass up against the two front seats, unable to get to the skydive door to vacate the doomed machine.
Sure a cargo net preventing use of the baggage shelf would have pushed the CG forward before the stall. The rope with knots every few feet would (maybe, we will never know) have allowed some of those jumpers to haul themselves up to the exit door and maybe, maybe, exit before it hit terra firma. Yes, a $20 rope could have saved a few. The accident report does not tell us how the first responders found the jumpers. Were they just an untidy mass of bodies bunched up in the front of the aircraft? We were not told.