I have no idea what happened and am not going to speculate why 1000s of people are now mourning the loss of relatives but I will post these statistics to try and introduce some facts to reduce the number of tasteless posts in the AvB argument:
Number of hull losses per million flying hours to the end of 2013:
A318-321: O.24
B737 600-900: 0.27
A330: 0.30
B777: 0.40
A340: 0.69
B747 400: 0.93