OK, I do understand the need to left everything behind. And let's say that about 100 pax escape with their bags and no pax dies. The airline just lost a hull, it is probable the crash is due to its SOP/ maintenance / crew negligence and fights in every possible font to handle the bad news.
Among the people escaping with their bags are some very important customers (commercially) and some pax of high net worth who have a half decent legal team. Some other pax have contacted an ambulance-chasing lawyer who knows their way around. Would you be happy for the airline to have a jail a poor devil that escapes with his possessions because he does not any better and its all he/she has?
I stand to be corrected but those prosecutions would be most intresting.