article_snippet: A Lufthansa A321 – a longer version of the A320 – unexpectedly descended 3,000ft while cruising over Pamplona, Spain, last November.
article_snippet: The jet, with 109 passengers and crew aboard, was at an altitude of 31,000ft when it started to lose height.
article_snippet: The flight crew managed to regain control at 28,000ft.
article_snippet: the Airbus A320 is certified to fly up to 39,000ft, the Airbus A320 maximum altitude before the Airbus A320 rate of climb begins to erode.
article_snippet: In December an Airbus A320 crashed into the Java Sea killing all 162 people on board in an as-yet unexplained incident.
article_snippet: The Airbus A320-111 was on Airbus approach to the city's LaGuardia Airport when Airbus hit La Bloss Mountain, killing 87 of the 96 people on board.
article_snippet: One of the deadliest accidents involving one of the planes was in May 2006, when Armavia flight 967 crashed into the sea near Sochi, Russia.
article_snippet: All 113 passengers and crew on the A320-211 died after it flew into terrible weather while approaching the southern Russian city after taking off from Yerevan, Armenia.
article_snippet: Six years earlier, 143 people, including two Britons, lost 143 people, including two Britons lives when a Gulf Air Airbus A320-212 went down in the Gulf of Bahrain after a three-long flight from Cairo.
article_snippet: An Airbus A320 was  involved in a crash near Sochi, Russia in 2006 which killed 113 passengers and crew .