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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

AirAsia crash: Plane wreckage at bottom of sea, bad weather hampers recovery

Searchers using sonar equipment have located wreckage from AirAsia Flight QZ8501 at the bottom of the Java Sea, an Indonesian search and rescue official said.

At the moment, they still do not know if it is in one piece or broken up, the official was quoted as saying by a private news channel.

Nearly three days after the Airbus A320-200 went off the radar, its debris was found yesterday in the Karimata Strait near Pangkalanbun, Central Kalimantan.

Divers were to be deployed to search for bodies and for the plane's "black box" flight recorders but officials said heavy rain, strong winds and waves of up to 3 metres had forced them to suspend the operation.

At least seven bodies have been retrieved from the sea till now. Three bodies, two female and one male, were recovered yesterday while four more were pulled out today.

One of the bodies pulled out today was dressed in air stewardess uniform, said Bambang Soelistyo, chief of Indonesia's search and rescue agency Basarnas.
 
Source: Hindi News and Newspaper

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