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Interesting and frightening parallels to this accident that particular aircraft also an air bus, a different model, flew into a thunderstorm. the crew was met with all kinds of consequences as a result of that including icing over some key instrumentations and data probes put them into a stall. the plane went down essentially flat on its belly and handed more or less intact in the atlantic ocean. now, so that's quite possibly this scenario could apply in this case. some sort ofary over ary oeerodynamic stall. it is worth pointing out, that then eventually there were about 3,000 floating pieces...

Big picture as far as how the plane essentially fell out of the sky and that's 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 it's 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. the ntsb here in the u.s. they don't have anyone on the ground there. it's safe to say that most ...

Airasia flight 8501 is an airbus model a-320, and chances are you have flown in this very model jet probably more than once. cnn's 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 only to boeing's 737, which has delivered nearly 8,000 of its ultra popular medium-sized planes. the ...

Or landing somewhere in the world. the missing plane was delivered to airasia in 2008. since then, the airline says it has taken off some 13,600 times, logging approximately 23,000 hours in the air. airasia 8501 was carrying enough fuel for three hours of flight. shortly before disappearing, the pilot asked if he could ascend to 38,000 feet. that request was denied. the a320 is certified to fly up to 39,000 feet. its absolute limit is 42,000 feet. weight, temperature and fuel all play a role in how high the plane can fly safely. in its history, 16 have crashed, nine were deadly, resulting in 6...

Could be the case. regardless we're talking about depth which is scuba dive beachable. it doesn't require all of the unmanned submersibles that were required for air france 447 or will likely be required for mh-370. so the ability to work around it and obtain the necessary information, in this case the investigation will be the black boxes is good. you know we also have to be circum circumspect that there are likely bodies still in tact in the aircraft and that has to be handled appropriately. >> clive, when this plane is found -- and we're hoping it is a when -- if the fuselage is largely int...