Now that the AirAsia flight QZ8501’s fuselage has been located on the bed of the Java Sea, families and authorities hope that more bodies will be recovered and laid to rest. There are more than 100 bodies that are still missing from the downed AirAsia flight. CCTVNEWS correspondent Andy Saputra in Jakarta tells us more about the challenges teams are facing in recovering the fuselag
Indonesian navy divers were trying to find and retrieve bodies Thursday believed to be trapped inside a large chunk of the AirAsia jet's fuselage. Search and Rescue Agency chief Henry Bambang Soelistyo said the fuselage, which was spotted Wednesday by a Singaporean navy ship.
Indonesian divers have retrieved the flight data recorder and located the voice recorder of the Air Asia Flight QZ8501 plane that crashed into Java sea.It might take weeks for investigators manage to download the crucial data from the boxes, but initial analysis of the wreckage suggests the aircraft exploded as it made impact with the sea. The cock pit voice recorder is not yet retrieved from the sea which include essential information such as final conversations between the captain and the pilot.Flight number QZ 8501, lost contact with the Jakarta air traffic control tower at 6.17am local time (2317 GMT)on Dcecember 27. All 162 people on board were killed, but only 48 bodies have been recovered so far.
