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His father told the bbc i want my son to come back alive. he was a veteran of the skies with more than 20,000 flying hours, of which 6100 hours on the airbus 320. more hours than chesley sullenberger who executed the landing on the hudson. the captain of the airasia plane likely had about the same skill set based on his experience according to author les abend. >> he would have been just as competent to perform the miracle on the hudson. >> reporter: what we dont know is what happened in the coc...

In its history, 16 a-320 plaens have crashed. nine of those crashes were deadly resulting in 656 deaths on the plane or on the ground. the first crash, shortly after the plane started service in 1988. air franls flight 296 skimmed the top of trees during an air show demonstration flight. the cause, the fly-by wire system and pilot error. in 2007 tam airlines flight 3054 krashld on handing in sao paulo, brazil. the plane unable to stop crashed into a cargo terminal. 187 passengers and crew died p...

Speed. my colleagues, a-320 check captains, tell me at that altitude at the aircrafts weight that speed is not enough to sustain flight. they believe its possible if this screen grab is correct that this would indicate an aerodynamic stall, a high-altitude upset similar to what we saw with air france 447. >> richard, i know you want to get in there. what is a typical procedure for a pilot to gain air speed? >> i just wanted to come up to geoffrey if i may, don. >> go ahead. >> geoffrey with that...

Things like that. i suspect what were going to find is just trauma. >> at this point it does look like the airplane broke apart, the question is did it break apart when it hit the water or did it break apart at 35, 38,000 feet. >> thats an interesting thing. it was not given permission to climb but the latest information says the plane was climbing. that could indicate somehow the airplane itself decided it was going to climb and could have stalled that way like the air france airplane did and j...

Big picture as far as how the plane essentially fell out of the sky and thats going to be critical when they need to piece together this full picture of exactly what happened on sunday. >> when the black boxes are committee recovered -- and i hope its a when not an if -- i think the expectation is that the wreckage can be located at some point where do they go for analysis? which country takes the lead? >> we know that the french equivalent of the ntsb have two investigators on the ground there....

Airasia flight 8501 is an airbus model a-320, and chances are you have flown in this very model jet probably more than once. cnns miguel marquez has more. >> reporter: worldwide, more than 3,600 airbus a-320s are flown by more than 400 airlines charter companies, and private entities. eight american carriers combined have more than 450 a-320s in their fleet. among the biggest, jetblue, with 130, united has 97 delta and us airways 69 each. in the short to medium range world the a-320 is second on...

They are designed to gauge the air speed. the trouble is you may recall in the airfrance crash over the atlanta some six years ago, they iced over when they were at altitude and they fed inaccurate data back to the flights computers and suddenly the computers had no idea what the air speed was that confused the pilots and lead to a calamitous serious of decisions which the plane crashed. they will look at the tunes on the airbus a 320 where they were working properly or any possibility they iced...

And we have new details about the captain of the missing flight. a veteran pilot whose final communication with air traffic control is a crucial lead in the search. joe johns is outfront. >> reporter: as is common in indonesia, he is known by only one name. pictures on facebook confirm at least one of his own hobbies. he was a fan of motorcycles. reports suggest he is a member of a motorcycle club. his daughter posted a picture of him on social media saying dad, please come home. i still need yo...

Indonesian affiliate. >> the missing plane is an airbus a 320. they have a fleet of 30 of them. >> we take a look at the history with airlines around the world. >> worldwide, more than 3600 airbus 320s are flown by more than 400 airlines, charter companies and private entities. eight american carriers combined have more than 450 a320s in their fleet, amongst the biggest, jet blue with 190. delta and u.s. airways, 69 each. in the short to heed yum range world, the a320 is second only to boeing 73...

Found and recovered, they will be taken to a lab like this facility cnn visited earlier this year where it will be disassemble asked analyzed for clues. but answers wont come quickly, often it takes a year to arrive at a final conclusion as to what caused the fatal crash. >> the black boxes, they are housed in the tail of the a-320. so investigators will be searching for this portion of the plane. it is strategically placed back here. theres less of a chance that it is damaged. this is why it is...