AirAsia flight QZ8501 search and rescue underway
Yahoo7 and Agencies
December 31, 2014, 5:00 am
Indonesian officials have spotted six bodies from the AirAsia flight that disappeared two days earlier, and recovered three of them, in a painful end to the aviation mystery off the coast of Borneo island. Photo: AFP
WHAT WE KNOW:
- Debris and bodies from AirAsia flight QZ8501 were found Tuesday afternoon after a gruelling search by international teams. Indonesian president Joko Widodo says the recovery of the passengers and the crew is now the priority.
- At least 3 bodies have been pulled from the sea. Earlier reports of 40 bodies recovered was a “miscommunication”, according to the Indonesian navy.
- Images of floating bodies were broadcast on Indonesian TV and spread on social media, triggering an uproar by families of the victims and sparking scenes of raw emotion from distressed relatives.
- Naval vessels and aircraft from countries such as Singapore continue to arrive in the vicinity to assist in the retrieval effort. The US is now sending a second naval vessel to join search operations.
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Indonesian officials have spotted six bodies from the AirAsia flight that disappeared two days earlier, and recovered three of them, in a painful end to the aviation mystery off the coast of Borneo island.
The bodies were found in Java Sea waters about 10 kilometres from Flight 8501's last communications with air-traffic control. The plane with 162 people on board disappeared on Sunday on its way from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore after encountering storm clouds.
The three recovered 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.
Images on Indonesian television showed a half-naked bloated body bobbing in the sea.
Search and rescue teams were lowered on ropes from a hovering helicopter to retrieve corpses.
Three bodies were recovered shortly after, the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency said.
AirAsia said 155 of those on board Flight QZ8501 were Indonesians, with three South Koreans and one person each from Singapore, Malaysia, Britain and France.
Photo: A man faints in Surabaya as bodies are shown on local television. Photo: Twitter
The next stage of the search mission will focus on locating more passengers, the aircraft's black box and recovering the body of the plane from the bottom of the sea.
Divers will be used by authorities to recover the plane, which is lying on the sea floor 30 metres down, Head of Search and Rescue Henry Bambang Soelistyo said.
A relative of passengers on board the missing AirAsia flight QZ 8501 is carried by officials as she reacts to the news on television about the findings of bodies. Photo: AP
Relatives of the 162 passengers on the missing flight hugged each other and burst into tears in Surabaya, where the plane departed from, as they watched footage showing a body floating in the sea on a television feed showing a press conference held by Search and rescue chief Bambang Sulistyo in Jakarta.
They hugged one another and continued crying until an AirAsia officer shouted, "This is crazy", an AFP journalist at the scene said.
One man fainted and had to be taken out on a stretcher.
“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 AFP photographer on the search flight that spotted the plane's debris said he had seen about 10 objects in the sea resembling a life raft, life jackets and long orange tubes, which were later confirmed to be from the missing aircraft.
Photo: Relatives of passengers of the missing AirAsia flight QZ 8501 react to the news on television about the findings of bodies on the waters near the site where the jetliner disappeared. Photo: AP
The objects were seen 10 kilometres from the location the plane was last captured by radar.
At least 30 ships, 15 aircraft and seven helicopters have been looking for the jet carrying 162 people, said Indonesia's Search and Rescue Agency chief Henry Bambang Soelistyo.
An AFP photographer said he "spotted about 10 big objects and many more small white-coloured objects which we could not photograph". Photo: AFP/Twitter
Before losing contact with Air Traffic Control, the AirAsia pilots had been worried about the weather and had sought permission to climb above threatening clouds.
Air traffic control could not say yes immediately as there was no room.
Six other airliners were crowding the airspace, forcing Flight 8501 to remain at a lower altitude.
Only five minutes later, the jet had disappeared from the radar without issuing a distress signal.
The last communication from the cockpit to air traffic control was a request by one of the pilots to climb from 32,000 feet to 38,000 feet because of the weather.
Photo: An airport official checks a map of Indonesia at the crisis centre set up by local authority for the missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 at Juanda International Airport in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. Photo: AP
The captain, Iryanto, 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.
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