The door was in back of Puentes. What was on the video had Puentes by his seat digging for the life jacket and showed people in front of him, and then it goes to people going out of the plane. But if it was a continuous video it would have shown people going past him to get to the door in the back. In fact, Jacob Key would have had to go around him to get to the door to open it.
OK so nobody right behind the photog.
Question then is,
how many seats are on the left side, one opposite the door and one back?,
and if there is a seat on the right, behind the door.
We see in the beginning of the video 6 people, add photog & pilot, and didn’t see the guy that swam to shore. So that makes 9 so far.
About the gap in vid and who went in front of the photog:
There’s a video capture still that shows Rosa’s shirt arm and lifejacket, and another persons legs; they are standing up presumably getting the jackets on.
Maybe the photog let Rosa & jacob get by and the guy that swam was in back most seat so he got out ahead of everyone else?
And the reason for the gap in the vid is because photog had to put camera down in order to get his lifrjacket on.