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AirAsia crash: Search operation enters 8th day

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Search operation for AirAsia enters eight day. Rescue team has found four large objects in the searchingg new11 300x187 AirAsia crash: Search operation enters 8th day Java Sea and so far 30 bodies have been recovered.

The search for victims and black box recorders of ill-fated AirAsia jet on Sunday resumed, a day after the rescue teams found four large objects in the choppy waters of the Java Sea on the seventh day.

With the weather improving, the multi-national searchers are hopeful of retrieving the rest of the bodies and debris of the Airbus 320 which went down into the Java Sea last Sunday with 162 passengers and crew on board.

ommander of the Indonesian Armed Forces General Moeldoko confirmed that 30 bodies have been retrieved from the Java Sea so far.

“We’ve recovered 30 bodies and identified 4 from #Airasia850. Slow process, hope we can speed the process ahead,” he tweeted.

Four large metal objects belonging to the doomed AirAsia jet were found on Saturday.

“We’ve found four big parts from the plane we’re looking for,” Bambang Soelistyo, chief of Indonesia’s search and rescue agency Basarnas, told reporters in Jakarta on Saturday.

Two objects were found at the bottom of the sea near Pangkalan Bun. One of them was measured at 9.4 metres by 4.8 metres and a half-metre high. The other, found nearby, was 7.2 metres by a half metre.

Investigators are focusing on autopsies of recovered bodies to ascertain what happened to the plane. Though some of the victims’ families did not approve of autopsies, media reports said.

 AirAsia crash: Search operation enters 8th day

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