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One of the world's most popular planes. cnn's miguel marquez looks at the airbus 8320 from nose to tale. >> reporter: worldwide, more than 3,600 airbus 8320s 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, united, delta and us airways, 69 each. in the short to medium range world, the a320 is second only to boeing's 737, which has delivered nearly 8,000 of its ultra popular planes. the a320 family of planes includes the a-318, 319, and 321, all similar in range an...

Boxes, the voice recorder and the flight data recorder located in the tail section of the plane. when they find that, they will retrieve it and bring it to the surface and hand it over. it will be french investigators who take the lead and not the ntsb. not an american plane or carrier. there american-built engines on the plane, but this is a french-built plane being an airbus 8320. the french have authorities on the scene and chances are they will take the black boxes back to france for analysis. that will give us an idea of what the pilot was going through as he was experiencing this weather...

Airbus 8320 is one of the more popular in the skies so how safe is it? >> aviation consultant joins us on the curvy couch to discuss the anatomy of this plane. how safe are these planes in general? >> the only abnormality is the flight control system between that and boeing. this is a dinner type of flight control -- a a different type of flight control system where the pilots are outside of the loop of direct control. boeing keeps you inside of the loop. these aircraft are safe. they have had a long history of operation. 8300 aircraft fly by wire have been running around since 1984. >> by out...

For news of airports in indonesia and singapore. one woman at the crisis center reported to have said she had seven family members on the flight including her mother. another woman says her fiancee was on board. >> i listen to the rood and i go on the internet and i knew that it was his plane. it was supposed to be there before i got married. >> this is now turning into one of asia's worst air disasters. >> thank you very much. new information about the passengers and crew aboard flight 8501 airasia says the pilot had more than 20,000 hours of flight experience 6,000 on the air bus 8320. the f...

If that's the case in an aircraft that normally does 500 knots, this air bus 8320 that means at least it tells me i'm not an investigator that either they were pushing some -- facing some heavy head winds over 100 knots or the pilot had slowed the aircraft down because he anticipated a problem and wanted to give himselves a few more seconds to divert away from what was on the radar screen. i'm coming to a number of different conclusions but this does make sense? doesn't it? >> absolutely. or could be a combination of both. you know as a pilot whenever you get into severe turbulence you want to...