2015-01-22 14:56
Pangkalan Bun -
Indonesian divers Thursday recovered six bodies, some still belted into
their seats, near the main section of an AirAsia plane that crashed
into the Java Sea last month, but failed again to reach the fuselage.
Flight
QZ8501 went down on December 28 in stormy weather with 162 people on
board as it flew from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore. A
total of 59 bodies have so far been recovered.
"We have found six
bodies, four of whom were females and two males, all adults," S.B.
Supriyadi, a rescue agency official coordinating the search, told AFP.
He said they were found among debris, with some still strapped into their seats, not far from the jet's main section.
They had been flown to Pangkalan Bun town on Borneo island, the search headquarters.
The
main body of the Airbus A320-200 was spotted on the seabed by a
military vessel last week following an arduous search in shallow
Indonesian waters, but strong underwater currents and rough seas have
prevented divers from reaching it.
Search and rescue teams again failed to reach the fuselage on Thursday, Supriyadi said.
The
jet's black boxes -- the cockpit voice recorder and flight data
recorder -- were recovered last week, and investigators are analysing
them.
Indonesian Transport Minister Ignasius Jonan said this week
that the plane climbed abnormally fast before stalling and plunging into
the sea.
Just moments before the plane disappeared off the
radar, the pilot had asked to climb to avoid a major storm but was not
immediately granted permission due to heavy air traffic.
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