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>> talk about conditions of the weather there. we were seeing images after the incident, it was cloudy. talk about how that's been. >> reporter: well you know we have been talking to a pilot of a small aircraft who was flying over the area very shortly after the accident minutes afterwards. he was actually asked to go and search and see if he could figure out what happened to this a320. he says it was a clear day, there were no issues whatsoever. by the way, he also says he couldn't see the aircraft from the height he was at. we now know it was so damaged, pulverized one official describes it ...

It was damaged. there was a lot of concern that maybe it was damaged beyond repair but we're getting a sense, that investigators are working with it. of course these are, though though may look damaged they're sturdy pieces of metal. they are designed to withstand all sorts of eventualities in the cause of a crash or in the event of a crash. now a moment of sigh helps was held at the german headquarters in cologne of germanwings. many crewmembers were too distraught to fly today. one germanwings flight was canceled because of this. in other cases, other airlines stepped in to operate germanwin...

In service since 1991 when it took off from barcelona. airbus says it had approximately 58,300 flight hours and some 46,700 flights. >> this plane was 24 years old but it was being maintained on a very strict schedule even an enhanced schedule for older planes -- >> reporter: three months ago, it was a similar story with asia flight 8501. that plane was just six years old and had logged about 23,000 hours in the air. shortly after taking off from indonesia, the pilot asked air traffic control if he could ascend to 38,000 feet. that request was denied. the a320 is certified to fly up to 39,000 ...

Said there could be an erroneous indication from one piece of the electronic gear in the airplane to another set of computers on the a320 that could make the airplane believe it's about to stall. if it's about to stall, the airbus says i'm not going to let you do that i'm going to push the nose over of the airplane and try and get the nose lower and descend to keep the airplane from stalling. >> you think that potentially could have happened. let me get peter to react to that. what do you think of that theory? >> i think we have to consider anything. i think the most troubling part of this acc...

With more on this. as you see there, the plane, this type of plane, flies these types of routes all the time. that's why we're wondering if maybe it was really the weather that played a role. we just don't know yet. >> we don't know yet. you know what's interesting about the a320 and we heard as far as the rarity of planes going down .14 accidents for every one million takeoffs. .14 deadly accidents. puts it in perspective. 46,000 flights under its belt. that's about 5.3 flights every single day. this particular aircraft had over the past 24 years. so again, it's seen all sorts of elements in ...