AirAsia Flight QZ8501 Plane Wreckage Found In The
Sea; Several Bodies Recovered
The Airasia flight QZ5801 plane which was reported missing
has been found on the sea.
The bodies of several victims have been recovered from the
missing AirAsia flight, the Indonesian Navy said. Objects
resembling parts of the plane, as well as what was thought to
be the plane’s outline underwater, were seen in the search
area.
“There was a man swaying on the waves. After I looked at the
photo carefully on my laptop, I understood it was a human
body,” a lieutenant of the Indonesian Air Force told local
media.
The bodies so far found have been brought to an Indonesian
Navy ship, National Search and Rescue Director Supriyadi
told. The corpses were swollen, but intact, and did not have
life jackets on, he said, as cited by AP.
Several family members of missing passengers burst into tears
or fainted when they saw footage of bodies floating in the
water.---- Updates Coming Up!!!

may the souls of the departed rest in peace. Amen

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More than 40 bodies have been
retrieved in the search for the
AirAsia jet, the Indonesian navy
has said as debris spotted in the
Java Sea was confirmed as
belonging to the plane.
Earlier, Indonesian officials
coming off a helicopter on Borneo
island said they have recovered
several bodies floating in waters
near where the missing AirAsia
flight was last seen. Images on
local television showed at least
one bloated corpse.
The bodies, swollen but intact,
were brought to an Indonesian
navy ship, National Search and
Rescue Director SB Supriyadi told
reporters in the nearest town,
Pangkalan Bun. The corpses did
not have life jackets on.
Relatives of passengers began
crying hysterically and fainting as
the footage was aired.
Government security officials
carry a family member of
passengers onboard missing
AirAsia flight QZ8501 after she
collapsed at a waiting area in
Juanda International Airport,
Surabaya, December 30, 2014.
(Reuters)
At least two distraught family
members were carried out on
stretchers from the room where
they had been waiting for news in
Surabaya, Indonesia’s second
largest city - the take-off point for
the aircraft that disappeared
during a storm on Sunday,
Agence France-Presse reported.
An air force plane also spotted a
“shadow” on the seabed believed
to be the missing AirAsia jet,
Indonesia's National Search and
Rescue Agency chief said.
A government official (L) tries to
calm a family member of
passengers onboard AirAsia
flight QZ8501 at a waiting area
in Juanda International Airport,
Surabaya, December 30, 2014.
(Reuters)
“God blessed us today,” Bambang
Soelistyo told a press conference.
“At 12:50 the air force Hercules
found an object described as a
shadow at the bottom of the sea
in the form of a plane,” he said.
Items resembling an emergency
slide, plane door and other
objects were spotted during an
aerial search in the morning.
“We spotted about 10 big objects
and many more small white-
colored objects which we could
not photograph,” Indonesian air
force official Agus Dwi Putranto
told a press conference earlier on
Tuesday.
This aerial view taken from an
Indonesian search and rescue
aircraft over the Java Sea shows
floating debris spotted in the
search area. (AFP)
“The position is 10 kilometers
from the location the plane was
last captured by radar,” he said.
More floating debris spotted in
the search area. (AFP)
He displayed 10 photos of objects
resembling a plane door,
emergency slide, and a square
box-like object.
An AFP photographer on the
same flight that spotted the
debris said he had seen objects in
the sea resembling a life raft, life
jackets and long orange tubes.
At least 30 ships, 15 aircraft and
seven helicopters were looking for
the jet carrying 162 people, said
Indonesia's Search and Rescue
Agency chief Henry Bambang
Soelistyo. Most of the craft were
Indonesian but Singapore,
Malaysia and Australia
contributed to the effort. Aircraft
from Thailand planned to join
Tuesday's search.
Relatives of passengers onboard
AirAsia flight QZ8501 cry in a
waiting area at Juanda
International Airport in
Surabaya December 29, 2014.
(Reuters)
The U.S. Navy is also joining the
search. It said in a statement that
the USS Sampson, a destroyer,
which was already on an
independent deployment in the
Western Pacific, and will arrive in
the area later Tuesday. China
announced that a navy frigate
already on patrol in the South
China Sea and aircraft to help the
search.
Pilot of Navy airplane CN235 M.
Naim holds a map to co-pilot
Rahmad while flying over the
Java sea during joint search
operations. (Reuters)
Australia said Tuesday it was
sending two more Orion aircraft
to join the search, bringing
Australia's total contribution to
three Orions.
A member of the Indonesian
military looks out of the window
during a search and rescue
(SAR) operation for missing
Malaysian air carrier AirAsia
flight QZ8501. (AFP)
Minutes later, the jet was gone
from the radar without issuing a
distress signal. The plane is
believed to have crashed into
Indonesia's Java Sea, but broad
aerial surveys so far have turned
up no firm evidence of the
missing Airbus A320-200.
On Monday, searchers spotted
two oily patches and floating
objects in separate locations, but
it was not known any of it was
related to the plane that vanished
Sunday halfway into what should
have been a two-hour hop from
Surabaya, Indonesia, to
Singapore. The area is a busy
shipping lane. Officials saw little
reason to believe the flight met
anything but a grim fate.
Based on the plane's last known
coordinates, the aircraft probably
crashed into the water and "is at
the bottom of the sea," Bambang
Soelistyo said Monday. Still,
searchers planned to expand their
efforts onto land on Tuesday.
A storm alone isn't going to bring
down a modern plane designed to
withstand severe weather. But
weather paired with a pilot error
or a mechanical failure could be
disastrous.
Pilots rely on sophisticated
weather-radar systems that
include a dashboard display of
storms and clouds, as well as
reports from other crews, to steer
around dangerous weather.
"A lot more information is
available to pilots in the cockpit
about weather than it ever was,"
said Deborah Hersman, former
chairman of the U.S. National
Transportation Safety Board. But
the technology has limits and
sometimes information about
storms "can be a little bit stale."
Authorities monitor progress in
the search for AirAsia Flight
QZ8501 in the Mission Control
Center inside the National
Search and Rescue Agency in
Jakarta December 29, 2014.
(Reuters)
The captain, Iryanto, who like
many Indonesians uses a single
name, had more than 20,000
flying hours, AirAsia said.
People who knew Iryanto recalled
that he was an experienced
military pilot, flying F-16 fighters
before shifting to commercial
aviation. His French co-pilot,
Remi Plesel, had been in
Indonesia three years and loved to
fly, his sister, Renee, told France's
RTL radio.
"He told me that things were
going well, that he'd had a good
Christmas. He was happy. The
rains were starting," she said.
"The weather was bad."