The captain stopped instead of taking off, had he not all would be dead.Pilots do whatever they consider it's the best option on stressful situations. They are humans and commit mistakes.The Captain made the right choice to abort takeoff, there was no way he could have know about the crosswinds.If the pilots didn’t stop there would be an explosion up in the air and all would be dead also I’ve heard the story before the reason is because the tanks were leaking fuel so when the fire happened the fuel was leaking so that’s why it when into the cabin so quickly, and 1 or 2 of the emergency doors couldn’t be opened and most of them died bc of the toxic fumes.