Divers get first look in plane’s fuselage
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INDONESIAN divers yesterday finally reached the fuselage of an AirAsia plane that crashed last month, an official said, as four more bodies were recovered from the Java Sea.
Flight QZ8501 went down on December 28 with 162 people on board as it flew from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore.
“Divers have reached the fuselage this morning but they could not get in because there were so many cables and debris,” said S. B. Supriyadi, a rescue agency official coordinating the search.
Bad weather later in the day hampered further efforts to check if there were bodies inside, he said.
Rescuers have been trying to reach the main body of the Airbus A320-200 since it was spotted on the seabed by a military vessel last week, but have been rebuffed by difficult conditions.
Officials hope most of the victims will be inside the fuselage, and plan a thorough assessment of the wreckage to determine how to retrieve the bodies.
The four bodies found yesterday were located among debris near the wreckage.
A total of 63 bodies have been found so far, Supriyadi said.
Divers recovered six bodies on Thursday, some still strapped into their seats, near the main section of the plane.
The jet’s cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder were recovered last week, and investigators are analyzing 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 it disappeared off the radar, the pilot asked to climb to avoid a storm but was not immediately granted permission due to heavy air traffic.
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