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Divers recover more bodies of AirAsia jet

Indonesian divers on Thursday found six bodies near the fuselage of an AirAsia jet that crashed last month into the Java Sea, but were unable to enter the wreckage where most of the victims are believed to be trapped, a navy official said

The Jakarta Post

Aboard Kri Banda Aceh

Fri, January 23, 2015 Published on Jan. 23, 2015 Published on 2015-01-23T07:35:02+07:00

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ndonesian divers on Thursday found six bodies near the fuselage of an AirAsia jet that crashed last month into the Java Sea, but were unable to enter the wreckage where most of the victims are believed to be trapped, a navy official said.

'It was very dark, visibility was very limited so our diving teams could not enter,' Rear Admiral Widodo, commander of the navy's western fleet, told reporters aboard the warship KRI Banda Aceh. 'However we still predict we can evacuate all the bodies from there.'

Widodo added rescuers expected to attach giant air bags to the fuselage to lift it to the surface by Friday, Reuters reported.

Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ8501 lost contact with air traffic control in bad weather on Dec. 28, less than halfway into a two-hour flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore. There were no survivors among the 162 people on board the Airbus A320.

A multinational search and rescue operation has recovered 59 bodies so far and located both 'black box' flight recorders, which will provide clues as to why the plane crashed. (***)