at least middle-aged, if not older. but just like people aircraft can last a long time and it is most important that it be inspected and be maintained properly. and so it is not unusual to see aircraft in service for decades. you just want to make sure you have a really rigorous maintenance program. and we heard from the lufthansa spokesperson that it was just yesterday that the plane did go through a maintenance routine in dusseldorf. and the relative the nationalities, they are not completely confirmed, but a short list of the 150 people on board but we don t know of the ntsb being involved because there is no american confirmation on board. how closely can the ntsb work and monitor what the french are doing in the lead of this and the help of germany and spain. how closely can we be involved? the ntsb s role in an
been really highly publicized crashes. most recently in december of last year air asia flight 8501 between indonesia and singapore lost contact. the crew requested a change in altitude and route to avoid poor weather. it fell into the java sea off the coast of indonesia, all 155 people on board were killed. before that january of 2009 what we now know is the miracle on the hudson. u.s. airways taking off from new york to charlotte where the aircraft struck a flock of birds and power went out and sully sullenberger successfully landed with that iconic shot. all 155 people survived after evacuating the aircraft on water. to july of 2007, 3054 in brazil one of the two thrust diverser was activated to the plane shot past the runway crashing into a
let me get to the next slide okay now, the navigate aspect of this doesn t seem to have changed. the flight path was going from from let s come back off here. i think it s being a little temperamental. the interesting bit about this thomas at 48 miles before the impact point, the aircraft doesn t seem to have changed direction. we go to the mantra aviate navigate, communicate. the navigate bit, this point here the aircraft should have been looking forge a suitable diversion to land at and it doesn t appear to have done that. it appears to have projected along the original flight path into the impact point. that is a question that investigators will be looking at. the other thing that the lufthansa spokes person was
as ann pointed out, a large contingent of school kids comes from a school outside of dusseldorf. we have six crew members and captain had been flying for ten years for lufthansa, the parent company of germanwings, being a budget airline that is another company that is owned by lufthansa. let s talk about what we know more about the aircraft itself. this isn t the first tragedy for the airbus a-320. francis rivera has a history. we heard about the a-320, it s a workhorse of modern aviation, heard that over and over again. it s for flights with durations of one to five hours. overall the a-320 has a good safety record. keep in mind with this, just 1.4 fatal accidents per million takeoffs here. 1.4, over the years there have