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View all search resultsUS ship finds 6 bodies, AirAsia body count reaches 16
The American ship USS Sampson recovered six bodies in the Java Sea, victims of the Air Asia flight QZ8501 crash, on Friday, says National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) Pangkalan Bun post operational director First Marshal S
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he American ship USS Sampson recovered six bodies in the Java Sea, victims of the Air Asia flight QZ8501 crash, on Friday, says National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) Pangkalan Bun post operational director First Marshal S.B. Supriyadi.
The American vessel found the bodies at a location that was not far from the last known position of the flight, which crashed on Sunday, Dec. 28 with 162 people on board. Supriyadi explained that the search and recovery area was being extended around the airplane's last known position, due to the probability of sea currents carrying the floating bodies further afield.
'The bodies found will all be airlifted back [to Pangkalan Bun],' Supriyadi said on Friday as quoted by tempo.co.
Earlier on Friday morning, another two bodies were found by an Indonesian and a Malaysian vessel, bringing the total body count to 16.
On Friday afternoon, four bodies were airlifted by an American Seahawk helicopter to Pangkalan Bun, and were then transferred to the city's Sultan Imanuddin Hospital.
A total of eight bodies have now been airlifted to Surabaya for identification by the East Java Police's disaster victim identification team. (dyl/nfo)(++++)
