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Indonesian affiliate. >> the missing plane is an airbus a 320. they have a fleet of 30 of them. >> we take a look at the history with airlines around the world. >> worldwide, more than 3600 airbus 320s are flown by more than 400 airlines, charter companies and private entities. eight american carriers combined have more than 450 a320s in their fleet, amongst the biggest, jet blue with 190. delta and u.s. airways, 69 each. in the short to heed yum range world, the a320 is second only to boeing 737, which has delivered nearly 8,000 of its ultra-popular medium-sized planes. the family includes th...

Found and recovered, they will be taken to a lab like this facility cnn visited earlier this year where it will be disassemble asked analyzed for clues. but answers won't come quickly, often it takes a year to arrive at a final conclusion as to what caused the fatal crash. >> the black boxes, they are housed in the tail of the a-320. so investigators will be searching for this portion of the plane. it is strategically placed back here. there's less of a chance that it is damaged. this is why it is so critical. these digital recorders essentially will reveal what was said in the cockpit. if the...

Aircraft. roughly six years old. the delivery date october 2008. now, as far as flight time we're told by airbus it has about 23,000 flight hours. it's what you would call a work horse for commercial aviation. it is a well-traveled aircraft. the safety record for the a-320, really good when you consider the millions of flights this family of aircraft has made. now, at this point, airbus is very careful with the language it is using. it is not dipping into the arena of speculation. they say they are waiting and they are collecting information. they're making it very clear that they are ready an...

On land as well. borneo that major island shared by malaysian, indonesian and that smaller island to the west on the side of the java sea. certainly hope certainly a sense of momentum building that 48 hours in two days after the disappearance this is the moment to see if there can be any rescue if they can find any survivors. >> all right, david we know you're staying on top of it. we know you're tired. a long night there at surabaya airport. as we mentioned just a couple of hours until daybreak there when the search will resume for any trace of this plane and joining me now to discuss, mary s...

Go through directly a thunderstorm. >> it's our understanding that the pilot -- the captain asked for a deviation in the flight route, asked to go higher. how stable is the plane at those altitudes, some 36,000 to 38,000 feet? >> well that's a great part of the question. but before i get to that answer and i'll get to it very quickly. let's not jump ahead of ourselves. the request for higher altitude may have been because they were experiencing choppy ride. it may not have been unbearable. we all want to make our ride comfortable for passengers. as far as going to a higher altitude my understa...