family of a-320 aircraft which encompasses, the a opinion 3 20rks the a-319. they might have a few a-321 as well. they have a full airbus fleet. all of them fairly small aircraft. but they have a lot. they are one of the premiere low-cost carriers in europe. one that is known to have a very good safety track record. and the very interesting thing, flying over europe today as i did. there didn t seem to be much adverse weather over the continent. certainly flying over europe today i can tell you and listening to what my pilot, on my flight germanwings flight this morning said there didn t seem to be any sort of weather conditions that might have made things difficult in any way, shape or form. that s one of the concerns was weather a factor some reason the plane descended from 38,000 feet to 24,000 feet in a matter of seven minutes.