it's based in cologne, it is owned by lufthansa. the reports are that the plane was traveling from bars lobecelona to dusseldorf. mary sciavo in london tell us what you're hearing there. >> 142 passengers a total of 148 with the crew. the weather is quite good so you know often you have the weather component to the flight and there really isn't any information on the cause, no information on and you wouldn't expect that it would be survivable in the alps. but really not much more than that. obviously lufthansa has been around for 80 years. it's a very very old and established airline. the wings is an offshoot to provide lower-cost travel throughout the eu.