Such a sad event.
It's good to see that some PPrune contributors are refraining from the horrible ill informed speculation we normally see here!
Just two questions though...
(a) Why do the press allocate two sides of paper to profiles on the two pax and (in the same article) not even mention the three crew?
(b) At a time when airlines are fighting for their very survival, surely the airport could have opened the runway (not for public transport) for say a predetermined and published 30 minutes today. This would have allowed BHX based operators to at least ferry empty aircraft out of BHX and begin ops elsewhere (MAN EMA etc).