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Approach u.s. airports while this is still very much a question that's up in the air. and so you've had japan airlines, emirates air, you've had i think it was one of the -- somebody out of india, air india i think, said they're not going to fly with the 777 into the united states. that's the workhorse plane going into the country and doing international flights. so at the moment, that's pretty much the type of flight that we're seeing that is not coming into the united states. keep in mind, this is the slowest period of the year for air travel. most other planes are now methodically being app...

Captain. this is a workhorse plane, not a plane known to have tremendous problems. it has problems but nothing out of the ordinary as far as we know. if you look at the flight pattern of this plane, ashleigh, that's where the mystery comes in because everything looked normal. this is the speed of the plane here in red. the blue is the altitude of the plane. and all of this looks perfectly fine. along in here, the plane was going somewhere around 500 miles an hour plus which is perfectly normal. it lost a little bit of speed right in here. nobody knows exactly why or what that was about. and he...

We're back with breaking news in our world lead. french authorities now have one of the black boxes from today's germanwings plane crash. that device could be critical in determining what went wrong. all 150 people on board that plane are feared dead. flight 9525 left barcelona at 10:01 this morning. at 10:53 the plane had its last contact with french radar over the alps. flight trackers on line show the plane had a sharp decline. the question is why. tom foreman is looking into the theories. tom, one of the possibilities that people are discussing is there was some kind of catastrophic failur...

Point. but again, i would think, andrea, as you know in this business, that it shouldn't take too long for them to figure it out, if in fact, that plane was shot down. >> and, in fact, they've got plenty of debris there. we're seeing pictures off of russian television now of the debris field. so tragically, we see clearly there were no survivors from this. this is 295 people. 280 passengers, 15 crew members. malaysian air flight, mik, which was at cruise altitude. and this is a workhorse plane, the 777. this is a plane that does long hauls. we've all flown on them across -- on international fl...

Colgan air flight 3407 went down in buffalo. but the reality remains, only two people are killed, for every 100 million passengers who fly worldwide. all right. tom costello covers aviation for nbc news and joins us live from san francisco. tom, you've been all over this story. the data shows that the numbers are getting better in terms of these accidents. but the record of this specific plane, the 777, is stellar, isn't it, up until now? >> absolutely. this is the first crash, fatal crash involving a 777. it came off the line in 1994. this is a workhorse plane, flown around the world for tran...