they don't see a terrorist link to what's happened out there. >> jim acosta reporting live from the white house, thank you. we may not know what caused germanwings flight 9525 to crash, but we certainly from information about that very aircraft. the plane was an airbus model a320. the twin engine single aisle aircraft. it was carrying 150 people. we can confirm that is the final number, 150. it was delivered to lufthansa from the production line back in 1991. and it had just a little more than 58,000 flight hours on it. joining me now with a virtual look at the flight path and the very rough terrain where that plane crashed is cnn's tom foreman. can you walk me through everything that we know technically about this plane and where it crashed? >> well, we know, as you said, it wasn't a particularly old aircraft, not by industry standards. it was inspected by lufthansa engineers just the day before this flight. they're very good engineers. it was piloted by a very capable