2015-01-07 08:46
Jakarta - Recovery teams have found the tail
of the crashed AirAsia Flight 8501 in the Java Sea, the Indonesian
search chief said on Wednesday, the eleventh day of relief operations.
"We
have successfully obtained part of the plane that has been our target.
The tail portion has been confirmed found," search and rescue agency
chief Bambang Soelistyo told reporters in Jakarta.
The
discovery on the seabed could mark a breakthrough in the search as the
tail of a plane usually houses the "black box" flight data recorders,
crucial to determining the cause of a crash.
The
plane vanished from radar screens during a storm on 28 December when it
was flying from the city of Surabaya to Singapore with 162 people on
board, most of them Indonesian.
Despite a
huge recovery operation assisted by various countries, progress has
been patchy with poor weather conditions hampering the search. So far 39
bodies have been found, all of them floating on the sea.
Search chiefs earlier said five large parts of the plane had been detected but had not confirmed which parts of the aircraft.
Indonesia
alleges the plane was flying on an unauthorised schedule when it
crashed and AirAsia has since been suspended from flying the
Surabaya-Singapore route.
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