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Cockpit. giving them hundreds of pieces data parameters how this plane was performing. we're talking about alt, altitude, speed, vertical acceleration, head, pitch, roll. looking at engine performance, autopilot. whether there was, in fact a cabin pressure issue. all should be included in the flight data recorder. black boxes, there are various forms of black boxes. they don't all look like this come in various shapes and sizes. so i can't tell you exactly what that one looked like on that particular a320 but all do essentially the same thing. the key will be recovering that data as best they ...

1988. air france flight 29 skimmed the top of trees during an air show demonstration flights. the cause -- the fly-by wire system and pile error. in 2007 flight 3054 crashed on landing in sao paolo, brazil. a reverse thruster had been deactivated. the plane unable to stop crashed into a cargo terminal. 187 passengers and crew died plus 12 on the ground. the deadliest crash for an a320. cause -- likely pilot error or mechanical failure. who could forget the 2009 ditching of the u.s. airways flight 1549. on takeoff from new york's laguardia airport, the plane collided with a flock of geese. both...

Now the doomed germanwings flight was an airbus a320. that is well known by aviation analysts for its strong safety record. >> it is. and there are several thousand of these planes in operation around the world. miguel marquez take a closer look now at the history of this type of aircraft. >> reporter: worldwide more than 3,600 airbus a320s are flown by more than 400 airlines charter companies, and private entities. eight american carriers combined have more than 450 a 20s in n fleets. among the biggest, jetblue with 130. united has 97. daley and u.s. airways -- delta and u.s. airways 9 each. ...

Know you're in an emergency but to clear other traffic in your way, in the path. >> unless their attention is so focused on trying to ensure the plane doesn't crash. >> yeah. i have a problem with this -- that concept. but the -- there's so many warning bells and alarms on the a320. and that particular aircraft was fitted with pretty much up-to-date latest avionic suite. it had just come out of a major -- very extensive engineering inspection. it had come out on monday, i believe. literally the day before. so if that's correct, the crave should have been in tip-top condition. one of the things...

Getting the information to us. likely a significant number offer is mans of than flight from barcelona to dusseldorf given this is a heavy vacation time and they use those flights. the accident happened in a zone that is very hard to access according to one expert here on the scene. a spokesman for france for france's aviation authority said the airliner crashed near the town of barcelonnette, 100 kilometers near the french riviera city of nice. the statement of the prime minister's office said the crash happened in a remote and sparsely inhabited commune in the foothills of the french alps. t...